TubeFiler: an automatic web video categorizer

  • Authors:
  • Damian Borth;Jörn Hees;Markus Koch;Adrian Ulges;Christian Schulze;Thomas Breuel;Roberto Paredes

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany;University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany;University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany;Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI), Kaiserslautern, Germany;Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI), Kaiserslautern, Germany;University of Kaiserslautern & DFKI, Kaiserslautern, Germany;Universidad Politécnica, Valencia, Spain

  • Venue:
  • MM '09 Proceedings of the 17th ACM international conference on Multimedia
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

While hierarchies are powerful tools for organizing content in other application areas, current web video platforms offer only limited support for a taxonomy-based browsing. To overcome this limitation, we present a framework called TubeFiler. Its two key features are an automatic multimodal categorization of videos into a genre hierarchy, and a support of additional fine-grained hierarchy levels based on unsupervised learning. We present experimental results on real-world YouTube clips with a 2-level 46-category genre hierarchy, indicating that - though the problem is clearly challenging - good category suggestions can be achieved. For example, if TubeFiler suggests 5 categories, it hits the right one (or at least its supercategory) in 91.8% of cases.