MediaMill: semantic video search using the RotorBrowser

In this technical demonstration we showcase the current version of the MediaMill system[1], a search engine that facilitates access to news video archives at a semantic level. The core of the system is a thesaurus of 500 automatically detected semantic concepts. To handle such a large thesaurus in retrieval, an engine is developed which automatically selects a set of relevant concepts based on a textual query, and an novel user interface which uses multi dimensional browsing to visualize the result set.