Detecting Significant Events in Lecture Video using Supervised Machine Learning

  • Authors:
  • Christopher Brooks;Kristofor Amundson;Jim Greer

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratory for Advanced Research in Intelligent Educational Systems (ARIES), Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan, Canada, cab938@mail.usask.ca, kta719@mail.usask.ca, greer@c ...;Laboratory for Advanced Research in Intelligent Educational Systems (ARIES), Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan, Canada, cab938@mail.usask.ca, kta719@mail.usask.ca, greer@c ...;Laboratory for Advanced Research in Intelligent Educational Systems (ARIES), Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan, Canada, cab938@mail.usask.ca, kta719@mail.usask.ca, greer@c ...

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2009 conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education: Building Learning Systems that Care: From Knowledge Representation to Affective Modelling
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper describes work we are doing to identify significant events in video captures of academic lectures. Unlike other approaches which tend to define per-image comparison threshold values based on intuition or empirically derived results, we use supervised machine learning techniques to automatically determine appropriate image characteristics based on end-users understanding of what constitutes an important event. This makes our approach more adaptable to different kinds of content, and still provides a substantial level of agreement with human experts.