VIREO-VH: libraries and tools for threading and visualizing a large video collection

• Venue: ACM SIGMultimedia Records
• Year: 2013

"Video Hyperlinking" refers to the creation of links connecting videos that share near-duplicate segments. Like hyperlinks in HTML documents, the video links help user navigating videos of similar content, and facilitate the mining of iconic clips (or visual memes) spread among videos. Figure 1 shows some example of iconic clips, which can be leveraged for linking videos and the results are potentially useful for multimedia tasks such as video search, mining and analytics. VIREO-VH [1] is an open source software developed by the VIREO research team. The software provides end-to-end support for the creation of hyperlinks, including libraries and tools for threading and visualizing videos in a large collection. The major software components are: near-duplicate keyframe retrieval, partial nearduplicate localization with time alignment, and galaxy visualization. These functionalities are mostly implemented based on state-of-the-art technologies, and each of them is developed as an independent tool taking into consideration flexibility, such that users can substitute any of the components with their own implementation. The earlier versions of the software are LIP-VIREO and SOTU, which have been downloaded more than 3,500 times. VIREO-VH has been internally used by VIREO since 2007, and evolved over the years based on the experiences of developing various multimedia applications, such as news events evolution analysis, novelty reranking, multimedia-based question-answering [2], cross media hyperlinking [3], and social video monitoring.