Vaas: Video Analytics At Scale
Summary: Vaas is an interactive video-analytics system that represents workflows as composable dataflow queries mixing ML models, code, and primitives. Approximate query processing enables rapid exploration and query-output-based annotation, accelerating workflow design and model training at scale. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Favyen Bastani (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 2. Oscar Moll (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 3. Sam Madden (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
BibTeX Citation
@article{bastani_vldb20,
title = {{Vaas: Video Analytics At Scale}},
author = {Bastani, Favyen and Moll, Oscar and Madden, Sam},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '20},
volume = {13},
number = {12},
pages = {2877--2880},
doi = {10.14778/3415478.3415498},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3415478.3415498},
year = {2020}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 9 of 9 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,720 | VSS: A Storage System for Video Analytics | 2021 | SIGMOD | 7.1739329e-05 |
| 3,766 | TASTI: Semantic Indexes for Machine Learning-based Queries over Unstructured Data | 2022 | SIGMOD | 7.1430942e-05 |
| 5,966 | VOCAL: Video Organization and Interactive Compositional AnaLytics | 2022 | CIDR | 6.0255527e-05 |
| 6,043 | Mixer: Efficiently Understanding and Retrieving Visual Content at Web-scale | 2021 | VLDB | 5.9966613e-05 |
| 8,362 | EQUI-VOCAL: Synthesizing Queries for Compositional Video Events from Limited User Interactions | 2023 | VLDB | 5.4432545e-05 |
| 9,464 | Self-Enhancing Video Data Management System for Compositional Events with Large Language Models | 2025 | SIGMOD | 5.2634238e-05 |
| 9,925 | DoveDB: A Declarative and Low-Latency Video Database | 2023 | VLDB | 5.1955087e-05 |
| 10,393 | Query-Aware Path Inference from Spatial Videos | 2026 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
| 10,623 | KEN: An Execution Engine for Unstructured Database Systems | 2026 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
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Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 284 | NoScope: Optimizing Neural Network Queries over Video at Scale | 2017 | VLDB | 0.00022370521 |
| 295 | Accelerating Machine Learning Inference with Probabilistic Predicates | 2018 | SIGMOD | 0.00022238183 |
| 1,042 | MIRIS: Fast Object Track Queries in Video | 2020 | SIGMOD | 0.00012451966 |
| 1,607 | Challenges and Opportunities in DNN-Based Video Analytics: A Demonstration of the BlazeIt Video Query Engine | 2019 | CIDR | 0.0001022751 |
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