TV ad video categorization with probabilistic latent concept learning

  • Authors:
  • Jinqiao Wang;Lingyu Duan;Lei Xu;Hanqing Lu;Jesse S. Jin

  • Affiliations:
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore;Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the international workshop on Workshop on multimedia information retrieval
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In this paper we present a multi-modal approach to TV ads classification by advertised products/services. A bag-of-words representation is proposed to discover ad categories-related latent visual and textual concepts by probabilistic latent semantics analysis (PLSA). We use multi-modal concepts to represent ad categories in the latent semantics space. In particular, we resort to external resources (e.g., a brand list, encyclopedia) to expand sparse textual information. A semi-supervised co-training is finally employed to fuse visual and textual features for ad classification. Our experiments have achieved promising results in terms of classification accuracy and scalability to new ad categories. The resulting ad classifiers can be applied to digest ads from TV streams, which is useful for TV viewers to manage ads in a positive manner. The digested ads can be considered the video-based alert for emerging products/services. Thus the reachability and focus of TV ads can be improved.