Exquisitor at the Video Browser Showdown 2025: Unifying Conversational Search and User Relevance Feedback

Ujjwal Sharma, Omar Shahbaz Khan, Stevan Rudinac, Björn Þór Jónsson

Abstract: Exquisitor is a multimedia retrieval system designed to combine conversational search and user relevance feedback to enhance interactive video search. In this work, we present recent improvements to Exquisitor, focusing on integrating these two search strategies into a unified, user-friendly interface. In this system edition set to participate at VBS 2025, we propose improvements for fusing results from the conversational search and user relevance feedback subsystems into a single search pane, an ability to launch multiple tabbed search instances and several improvements to the user interface to significantly improve user experience and search efficiency, particularly for novice users.