EQUI-VOCAL: Synthesizing Queries for Compositional Video Events from Limited User Interactions

Summary: EQUI-VOCAL synthesizes compositional video-event queries from a few positive/negative examples by using spatio-temporal scene graphs as its data model and query language. It leverages active learning to expand labels, tolerates noisy large video data, and outperforms baselines in F1, synthesis time, and robustness. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 13116
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2023
Pagerank: 4.5307128e-05
Overall Rank: 8,383 | 41.69%
DOI: 10.14778/3611479.3611482

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7,338	Aero: Adaptive Query Processing of ML Queries	2025	SIGMOD	4.7584583e-05
9,341	SketchQL: Video Moment Querying with a Visual Query Interface	2024	SIGMOD	4.3554097e-05
9,972	KathDB: Explainable Multimodal Database Management System with Human-AI Collaboration	2026	CIDR	4.1945683e-05
10,503	Self-Enhancing Video Data Management System for Compositional Events with Large Language Models	2025	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
11,284	EQUI-VOCAL Demonstration: Synthesizing Video Queries from User Interactions	2023	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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Showing 22 of 22 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
329	Accelerating Machine Learning Inference with Probabilistic Predicates	2018	SIGMOD	0.00027249545
696	BlazeIt: Optimizing Declarative Aggregation and Limit Queries for Neural Network-Based Video Analytics	2020	VLDB	0.00018048935
1,388	MIRIS: Fast Object Track Queries in Video	2020	SIGMOD	0.00012260926
1,459	Query From Examples: An Iterative, Data-Driven Approach to Query Construction	2015	VLDB	0.00011889802
2,576	S4: Top-k Spreadsheet-Style Search for Query Discovery	2015	SIGMOD	8.5112408e-05
3,604	Spatial and Temporal Constrained Ranked Retrieval over Videos	2022	VLDB	6.9301368e-05
3,661	Example-Driven Query Intent Discovery: Abductive Reasoning using Semantic Similarity	2019	VLDB	6.8689912e-05
4,075	Visual Road: A Video Data Management Benchmark	2019	SIGMOD	6.4691764e-05
4,213	SVQ++: Querying for Object Interactions in Video Streams	2020	SIGMOD	6.3553296e-05
4,225	Vaas: Video Analytics At Scale	2020	VLDB	6.3469943e-05
4,269	VSS: A Storage System for Video Analytics	2021	SIGMOD	6.306798e-05
4,501	TASTI: Semantic Indexes for Machine Learning-based Queries over Unstructured Data	2022	SIGMOD	6.137686e-05
4,865	OTIF: Efficient Tracker Pre-processing over Large Video Datasets	2022	SIGMOD	5.8684353e-05
4,909	A Method for Optimizing Opaque Filter Queries	2020	SIGMOD	5.8338804e-05
4,950	Evaluating Temporal Queries Over Video Feeds	2021	SIGMOD	5.8104133e-05
5,135	Zeus: Efficiently Localizing Actions in Videos using Reinforcement Learning	2022	SIGMOD	5.6724721e-05
5,544	PATSQL: Efficient Synthesis of SQL Queries from Example Tables with Quick Inference of Projected Columns	2021	VLDB	5.4462933e-05
6,000	DeepEverest: Accelerating Declarative Top-K Queries for Deep Neural Network Interpretation	2022	VLDB	5.2415551e-05
6,130	VOCAL: Video Organization and Interactive Compositional AnaLytics	2022	CIDR	5.1962107e-05
8,277	TQVS: Temporal Queries over Video Streams in Action	2020	SIGMOD	4.5436203e-05
9,296	Controlled Intentional Degradation in Analytical Video Systems	2022	SIGMOD	4.3599613e-05
9,769	VOCALExplore: Pay-as-You-Go Video Data Exploration and Model Building	2023	VLDB	4.2856106e-05

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