%0 Journal Article %T Similar Video Retrieval via Order-Aware Exemplars and Alignment %A Teruki Horie %A Masato Uchida %A Yasuo Matsuyama %J Journal of Signal and Information Processing %P 73-91 %@ 2159-4481 %D 2018 %I Scientific Research Publishing %R 10.4236/jsip.2018.92005 %X In this paper, we present machine learning algorithms and systems for similar video retrieval. Here, the query is itself a video. For the similarity measurement, exemplars, or representative frames in each video, are extracted by unsupervised learning. For this learning, we chose the order-aware competitive learning. After obtaining a set of exemplars for each video, the similarity is computed. Because the numbers and positions of the exemplars are different in each video, we use a similarity computing method called M-distance, which generalizes existing global and local alignment methods using followers to the exemplars. To represent each frame in the video, this paper emphasizes the Frame Signature of the ISO/IEC standard so that the total system, along with its graphical user interface, becomes practical. Experiments on the detection of inserted plagiaristic scenes showed excellent precision-recall curves, with precision values very close to 1. Thus, the proposed system can work as a plagiarism detector for videos. In addition, this method can be regarded as the structuring of unstructured data via numerical labeling by exemplars. Finally, further sophistication of this labeling is discussed. %K Similar Video Retrieval %K Exemplar Learning %K M-Distance %K Sequence Alignment %K Data Structuring %U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=85018