Good news, our short course proposal on Video Search Engines was accepted for the forthcoming IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. In this half-day course Arnold Smeulders and I will discuss the problems of video search, present methods how to achieve state-of-the-art performance, and indicate how to obtain improvements in the near future. We give an overview of the developments and future trends in the field on the basis of the TRECVID benchmark – the leading evaluation campaign for video search engines run by NIST – where we have consistently scored a top-three performance over the last five years. A course website with a detailed course description, overview of lecture topics, and related material will follow very soon is available online now.