EQUI-VOCAL: Synthesizing Queries for Compositional Video Events from Limited User Interactions
Summary: EQUI-VOCAL synthesizes compositional video-event queries from a handful of positive/negative examples, using active learning rather than declarative specs or sketches. Its spatio-temporal scene-graph language and noise-robust synthesis outperform baselines in F1, speed, and flexibility. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Enhao Zhang (University of Washington)
- 2. Maureen Daum (University of Washington)
- 3. Dong He (University of Washington)
- 4. Brandon Haynes (Microsoft)
- 5. Ranjay Krishna (University of Washington)
- 6. Magdalena Balazinska (University of Washington)
BibTeX Citation
@article{zhang_vldb23,
title = {{EQUI-VOCAL: Synthesizing Queries for Compositional Video Events from Limited User Interactions}},
author = {Zhang, Enhao and Daum, Maureen and He, Dong and Haynes, Brandon and Krishna, Ranjay and Balazinska, Magdalena},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '23},
volume = {16},
number = {11},
pages = {2714--2727},
doi = {10.14778/3611479.3611482},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3611479.3611482},
year = {2023}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5,553 | Aero: Adaptive Query Processing of ML Queries | 2025 | SIGMOD | 6.0843382e-05 |
| 9,597 | SketchQL: Video Moment Querying with a Visual Query Interface | 2024 | SIGMOD | 5.1542966e-05 |
| 9,653 | Self-Enhancing Video Data Management System for Compositional Events with Large Language Models | 2025 | SIGMOD | 5.142891e-05 |
| 10,358 | KathDB: Explainable Multimodal Database Management System with Human-AI Collaboration | 2026 | CIDR | 4.9769913e-05 |
| 10,849 | Craw: A Unified and Efficient Querying Framework for Large-Scale Video Datasets | 2026 | VLDB | 4.9769913e-05 |
| 11,799 | EQUI-VOCAL Demonstration: Synthesizing Video Queries from User Interactions | 2023 | VLDB | 4.9769913e-05 |
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