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, wherein said generating step further comprises the step of translating said identified example object to provide a substantially similar viewpoint as objects in said sequence of images; and processing said sequence of images to identify said object of interest based on a similarity metric to said query object.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein said example object is selected from a plurality of images obtained from a same camera as said sequence of images.