Im EU-Projekt BUSMAN ("Bringing User Satisfaction to Media Access Networks") wurde erforscht, wie man multimediale Inhalte - z.B. Filmmaterial - genauso gut urchsuchen kann: "Imagine a computer system that can automatically search through videos of football matches and pull out all the shots on goal or all the fouls". Das Projekt wurde von Ebroul Izquierdo geleitet und im Dezember 2004 beendet.
IST Results zitiert den Forscher Simon Waddington von Motorola Labs mit einem Beispiel: "'Given a ninety-minute football match,' he says, 'we developed a tool that could annotate the most interesting shots in the video. What you find is that, when a goal is scored, it is accompanied by rapid changes in camera shots and a rise in background noise from the spectators. Our tool can use this information to select highlights from the video, which saves the annotator much time and effort. It can even predict what is actually happening in a particular football sequence such as a foul'". Außerdem soll BUSMAN die Rechteabklärung erleichtern.