VISIONE 5.0: Toward Evaluation with Novice Users

VISIONE is a video search system that integrates multiple search functionalities, allowing users to search for video segments using textual and visual queries, complemented by temporal search capabilities. It exploits state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence approaches for visual content analysis and highly efficient indexing techniques to ensure fast response and scalability. In the recently concluded Video Browser Showdown (VBS2024) - a well-established international competition in interactive video retrieval - VISIONE ranked first and scored as the best interactive video search system in four out of seven tasks carried out in the competition.This paper provides an overview of the VISIONE system, emphasizing the improvements made to the system in the last year to improve its usability for novice users. A demonstration video showcasing the system's capabilities across 2,300 hours of diverse video content is available online, as well as a simplified demo of VISIONE.