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Cineast is a multi-feature content-based mulitmedia retrieval engine. It is capable of retrieving images, audio- and video sequences as well as 3d models based on edge or color sketches, sketch-based motion queries and example objects.

Find more information on Cineast in the following publications:

• Luca Rossetto, Ivan Giangreco and Heiko Schuldt (2014): Cineast: A Multi-Feature Sketch-Based Video Retrieval Engine. Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2014). Taichung, Taiwan. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISM.2014.38)

• Luca Rossetto, Ivan Giangreco, Silvan Heller, Claudiu Tănase, and Heiko Schuldt (2016): Searching in Video Collections using Sketches and Sample Images - The Cineast System. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM 2016). Miami, FL, USA. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27674-8_30)

Cineast is part of the vitrivr stack (https://vitrivr.org) and is being developed at the Databases and Information Systems Research Group (http://dbis.cs.unibas.ch) at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Cineast has its roots in the iMotion project (http://imotion-project.eu).