7 research outputs found
TagBook: A Semantic Video Representation without Supervision for Event Detection
We consider the problem of event detection in video for scenarios where only
few, or even zero examples are available for training. For this challenging
setting, the prevailing solutions in the literature rely on a semantic video
representation obtained from thousands of pre-trained concept detectors.
Different from existing work, we propose a new semantic video representation
that is based on freely available social tagged videos only, without the need
for training any intermediate concept detectors. We introduce a simple
algorithm that propagates tags from a video's nearest neighbors, similar in
spirit to the ones used for image retrieval, but redesign it for video event
detection by including video source set refinement and varying the video tag
assignment. We call our approach TagBook and study its construction,
descriptiveness and detection performance on the TRECVID 2013 and 2014
multimedia event detection datasets and the Columbia Consumer Video dataset.
Despite its simple nature, the proposed TagBook video representation is
remarkably effective for few-example and zero-example event detection, even
outperforming very recent state-of-the-art alternatives building on supervised
representations.Comment: accepted for publication as a regular paper in the IEEE Transactions
on Multimedi
A Data-Driven Approach for Tag Refinement and Localization in Web Videos
Tagging of visual content is becoming more and more widespread as web-based
services and social networks have popularized tagging functionalities among
their users. These user-generated tags are used to ease browsing and
exploration of media collections, e.g. using tag clouds, or to retrieve
multimedia content. However, not all media are equally tagged by users. Using
the current systems is easy to tag a single photo, and even tagging a part of a
photo, like a face, has become common in sites like Flickr and Facebook. On the
other hand, tagging a video sequence is more complicated and time consuming, so
that users just tag the overall content of a video. In this paper we present a
method for automatic video annotation that increases the number of tags
originally provided by users, and localizes them temporally, associating tags
to keyframes. Our approach exploits collective knowledge embedded in
user-generated tags and web sources, and visual similarity of keyframes and
images uploaded to social sites like YouTube and Flickr, as well as web sources
like Google and Bing. Given a keyframe, our method is able to select on the fly
from these visual sources the training exemplars that should be the most
relevant for this test sample, and proceeds to transfer labels across similar
images. Compared to existing video tagging approaches that require training
classifiers for each tag, our system has few parameters, is easy to implement
and can deal with an open vocabulary scenario. We demonstrate the approach on
tag refinement and localization on DUT-WEBV, a large dataset of web videos, and
show state-of-the-art results.Comment: Preprint submitted to Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU
Enriching and localizing semantic tags in internet videos
Tagging of multimedia content is becoming more and more widespread as web 2.0 sites, like Flickr and Facebook for images, YouTube and Vimeo for videos, have popularized tagging functionalities among their users. These user-generated tags are used to retrieve multimedia content, and to ease browsing and exploration of media collections, e.g.~using tag clouds. However, not all media are equally tagged by users: using the current browsers is easy to tag a single photo, and even tagging a part of a photo, like a face, has become common in sites like Flickr and Facebook; on the other hand tagging a video sequence is more complicated and time consuming, so that users just tag the overall content of a video. In this paper we present a system for automatic video annotation that increases the number of tags originally provided by users, and localizes them temporally, associating tags to shots. This approach exploits collective knowledge embedded in tags and Wikipedia, and visual similarity of keyframes and images uploaded to social sites like YouTube and Flickr
Enriching and localizing semantic tags in internet videos
Tagging of multimedia content is becoming more and more widespread as web 2.0 sites, like Flickr and Facebook for images, YouTube and Vimeo for videos, have popularized tagging functionalities among their users. These user-generated tags are used to retrieve multimedia content, and to ease browsing and exploration of media collections, e.g.~using tag clouds. However, not all media are equally tagged by users: using the current browsers is easy to tag a single photo, and even tagging a part of a photo, like a face, has become common in sites like Flickr and Facebook; on the other hand tagging a video sequence is more complicated and time consuming, so that users just tag the overall content of a video. In this paper we present a system for automatic video annotation that increases the number of tags originally provided by users, and localizes them temporally, associating tags to shots. This approach exploits collective knowledge embedded in tags and Wikipedia, and visual similarity of keyframes and images uploaded to social sites like YouTube and Flickr
Enriching and Localizing Semantic Tags in Internet Videos
Tagging of multimedia content is becoming more and more widespread as web 2.0 sites, like Flickr and Facebook for images, YouTube and Vimeo for videos, have popularized tagging functionalities among their users. These user-generated tags are used to retrieve multimedia content, and to ease browsing and exploration of media collections, e.g. using tag clouds. However, not all media are equally tagged by users: using the current browsers is easy to tag a single photo, and even tagging a part of a photo, like a face, has become common in sites like Flickr and Facebook; on the other hand tagging a video sequence is more complicated and time consuming, so that users just tag the overall content of a video. In this paper we present a system for automatic video annotation that increases the number of tags originally provided by users, and localizes them temporally, associating tags to shots. This approach exploits collective knowledge embedded in tags and Wikipedia, and visual similarity of key frames and images uploaded to social sites like YouTube and Flickr