1. A method for identifying an object of interest in a sequence of images, comprising: obtaining an identification from a user of an example object having at least one attribute of interest; generating a query object based on said identified example object, wherein said query object has a substantially similar viewpoint as objects in said sequence of images and wherein said query object comprises a plurality of attributes that are substantially similar as said example object; and processing said sequence of images to identify said object of interest based on a similarity metric to said query object.