Discriminative classification using index-based ranking of large multimedia archives

Devices, systems, and methods of performing feature detection on a set of multimedia files are disclosed. One method of organization includes identifying a feature from each multimedia file within the set of multimedia files wherein each file has one feature, organizing the features based on their similarities wherein similar features are grouped based upon a proximity in a feature space and a representative feature is identified for each group, receiving a detection model having one or more detection criteria the detection model having previously been trained for detection using the organized features, and using the representative features to apply the detection model in a decreasing order of detection probability in order to detect the files satisfying the detection criteria within the set of multimedia files.