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Design a system to retrieve similar scenes from a large video corpus given a query clip.

Video search is image search with a time axis, and the time axis is the whole problem. A strong answer embeds frames, pools them into scene vectors, indexes with ANN at billion scale, and explains how a multimodal query (clip, text, or both) finds the right moment, not just the right video.

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Video search is image search with a time axis, and the time axis is the whole problem. A strong answer embeds frames, pools them into scene vectors, indexes with ANN at billion scale, and explains how a multimodal query (clip, text, or both) finds the right moment, not just the right video.

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