Video classification as IR task: experiments and observations

  • Authors:
  • Jens Kürsten;Maximilian Eibl

  • Affiliations:
  • Chemnitz University of Technology, Faculty of Computer Science, Chair Computer Science and Media, Chemnitz, Germany;Chemnitz University of Technology, Faculty of Computer Science, Chair Computer Science and Media, Chemnitz, Germany

  • Venue:
  • CLEF'09 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Cross-language evaluation forum: multimedia experiments
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper describes experiments we conducted in conjunction with the VideoCLEF 2009 classification task. In our second participation in the task we experimented with treating classification as an IR problem and used the Xtrieval framework [1] to run our experiments. We confirmed that the IR approach achieves strong results although the data set was changed. We proposed an automatic threshold to limit the number of labels per document. Query expansion performed better than the corresponding baseline experiments in terms of mean average precision. We also found that combining the ASR transcriptions and the archival metadata improved the classification performance unless query expansion was used.