NoScope: Optimizing Neural Network Queries over Video at Scale

Summary: Auto-sequences a cascade of specialized and difference detectors to accelerate neural-network video queries while preserving reference-model accuracy. A cost-based optimizer tunes the cascade per video/object, delivering up to 15,500x real-time speedups with 1–5% accuracy loss. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11630
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 0.00022370521
Overall Rank: 284 | 98.06%
DOI: 10.14778/3137628.3137664

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Authors

1. Daniel Kang (Stanford University)
2. John Emmons (Stanford University)
3. Firas Abuzaid (Stanford University)
4. Peter Bailis (Stanford University)
5. Matei Zaharia (Stanford University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{kang_vldb17,
        title = {{NoScope: Optimizing Neural Network Queries over Video at Scale}},
        author = {Kang, Daniel and Emmons, John and Abuzaid, Firas and Bailis, Peter and Zaharia, Matei},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '17},
        volume = {10},
        number = {11},
        doi = {10.14778/3137628.3137664},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3137628.3137664},
        year = {2017}
}

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295	Accelerating Machine Learning Inference with Probabilistic Predicates	2018	SIGMOD	0.00022238183
569	BlazeIt: Optimizing Declarative Aggregation and Limit Queries for Neural Network-Based Video Analytics	2020	VLDB	0.00016348191
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1,343	DocETL: Agentic Query Rewriting and Evaluation for Complex Document Processing	2025	VLDB	0.00011095866
1,607	Challenges and Opportunities in DNN-Based Video Analytics: A Demonstration of the BlazeIt Video Query Engine	2019	CIDR	0.0001022751
2,384	DeepLens: Towards a Visual Data Management System	2019	CIDR	8.6494525e-05
2,702	Panorama: A Data System for Unbounded Vocabulary Querying over Video	2020	VLDB	8.2342712e-05
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2,987	Incremental and Approximate Inference for Faster Occlusion-based Deep CNN Explanations	2019	SIGMOD	7.8907997e-05
3,253	Jointly Optimizing Preprocessing and Inference for DNN-based Visual Analytics	2021	VLDB	7.5936939e-05
3,365	Spatial and Temporal Constrained Ranked Retrieval over Videos	2022	VLDB	7.4763252e-05
3,410	SVQ: Streaming Video Queries	2019	SIGMOD	7.4362585e-05
3,756	Vaas: Video Analytics At Scale	2020	VLDB	7.1487427e-05
3,766	TASTI: Semantic Indexes for Machine Learning-based Queries over Unstructured Data	2022	SIGMOD	7.1430942e-05
3,907	Accelerating Approximate Aggregation Queries with Expensive Predicates	2021	VLDB	7.0278233e-05
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4,256	VIVA: An End-to-End System for Interactive Video Analytics	2022	CIDR	6.8018439e-05
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5,789	Seiden: Revisiting Query Processing in Video Database Systems	2023	VLDB	6.0874367e-05
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6,494	Extract-Transform-Load for Video Streams	2023	VLDB	5.8639535e-05
7,176	Interactive Demonstration of Probabilistic Predicates	2018	SIGMOD	5.6816132e-05
7,568	Semantic Operators and Their Optimization: Enabling LLM-Based Data Processing with Accuracy Guarantees in LOTUS	2025	VLDB	5.5953379e-05
7,648	Accelerating Aggregation Queries on Unstructured Streams of Data	2023	VLDB	5.575838e-05
7,739	Video-zilla: An Indexing Layer for Large-Scale Video Analytics	2022	SIGMOD	5.5553554e-05
7,847	Biathlon: Harnessing Model Resilience for Accelerating ML Inference Pipelines	2024	VLDB	5.5330423e-05
8,115	Scaling a Declarative Cluster Manager Architecture with Query Optimization Techniques	2023	VLDB	5.4842672e-05
8,331	TQVS: Temporal Queries over Video Streams in Action	2020	SIGMOD	5.4520778e-05
8,470	Query-Driven Video Event Processing for the Internet of Multimedia Things	2021	VLDB	5.4183553e-05
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8,829	Cut Costs, Not Accuracy: LLM-Powered Data Processing with Guarantees	2026	SIGMOD	5.3613784e-05
8,869	A Distributed System for Large-scale n-gram Language Models at Tencent	2019	VLDB	5.3543688e-05
9,144	Spatialyze: A Geospatial Video Analytics System with Spatial-Aware Optimizations	2024	VLDB	5.315132e-05
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9,940	RALF: Accuracy-Aware Scheduling for Feature Store Maintenance	2024	VLDB	5.1924403e-05
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10,186	Accelerating Approximate Analytical Join Queries over Unstructured Data with Statistical Guarantees	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,286	ScaleDoc: Scaling LLM-based Predicates over Large Document Collections	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1	Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System	1979	SIGMOD	0.0024089429
111	TelegraphCQ: Continuous Dataflow Processing for an Uncertain World	2003	CIDR	0.00032990214
127	The Design of the Borealis Stream Processing Engine	2005	CIDR	0.00030738755
230	Gigascope: A Stream Database for Network Applications	2003	SIGMOD	0.00023891474
259	Database Cracking	2007	CIDR	0.00023119313
353	The Query By Image Content (QBIC) System	1995	SIGMOD	0.00020370587
518	Towards a Unified Architecture for in-RDBMS Analytics	2012	SIGMOD	0.00017167492
532	MLbase: A Distributed Machine-learning System	2013	CIDR	0.00017072641
813	Adaptive Ordering of Pipelined Stream Filters	2004	SIGMOD	0.00013846487
1,792	MacroBase: Prioritizing Attention in Fast Data	2017	SIGMOD	9.7436856e-05
2,532	STRG-Index: Spatio-Temporal Region Graph Indexing for Large Video Databases	2005	SIGMOD	8.4572502e-05
4,214	The Missing Piece in Complex Analytics: Low Latency, Scalable Model Management and Serving with Velox	2015	CIDR	6.8276099e-05
4,441	Optimization of Continuous Queries with Shared Expensive Filters	2007	PODS	6.7021508e-05
4,459	Efficient and Cost-effective Techniques for Browsing and Indexing Large Video Databases	2000	SIGMOD	6.6900936e-05
11,962	Prioritizing Attention in Fast Data: Principles and Promise	2017	CIDR	5.093636e-05

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