Telecom Italia at TRECVID2014 - Instance Search Task

MPEG CDVS is a forthcoming standard for representing images for visual search, both as queries and as database entries, with very short files, on the order of a kilobyte. The key advantages are interoperability and compactness. Interoperability ensures that data and equipment from different sources are mutually compatible, compactness allows for inexpensive object retrieval in terms of transmission and storage. In the Instance Search Task of TRECVID2014, CDVS performs well on rigid and detailed objects. For queries that depict persons, animals, or objects of poor detail, CDVS may not be sufficient as a standalone technique.