Abstract: In recent years, more and more researchers over the world show great interests in video mining gradually.However, the research is just on the start Practical applications are even few. The concepts, the system structures, and the approaches of video mining need farther studies. I}he study progress overseas and the inland dynamics of video mining technology were reviewed for summing up the states of the art. Then the concepts and the meanings of video mining were discussed. And the relations and differences between video mining technology and other correlative technologics were distinguished. Finally, the major problems and the solvable way in the studying of video mining were prospected.

Key words: Multimedia data mining,Video mining,Data mining