Title
Gaze movement-driven random forests for query clustering in automatic video annotation.
Abstract
In the recent years, the rapid increase of the volume of multimedia content has led to the development of several automatic annotation approaches. In parallel, the high availability of large amounts of user interaction data, revealed the need for developing automatic annotation techniques that exploit the implicit user feedback during interactive multimedia retrieval tasks. In this context, this paper proposes a method for automatic video annotation by exploiting implicit user feedback during interactive video retrieval, as this is expressed with gaze movements, mouse clicks and queries submitted to a content-based video search engine. We exploit this interaction data to represent video shots with feature vectors based on aggregated gaze movements. This information is used to train a classifier that can identify shots of interest for new users. Subsequently, we propose a framework that during testing: a) identifies topics (expressed by query clusters), for which new users are searching for, based on a novel clustering algorithm and b) associates multimedia data (i.e., video shots) to the identified topics using supervised classification. The novel clustering algorithm is based on random forests and is driven by two factors: first, by the distance measures between different sets of queries and second by the homogeneity of the shots viewed during each query cluster defined by the clustering procedure; this homogeneity is inferred from the performance of the gaze-based classifier on these shots. The evaluation shows that the use of aggregated gaze data can be exploited for video annotation purposes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1007/s11042-015-3221-1
Multimedia Tools Appl.
Keywords
Field
DocType
Implicit feedback, Eye-tracking, Interactive video retrieval, Clustering, Random forests
Computer vision,Feature vector,Annotation,Gaze,Computer science,Eye tracking,Artificial intelligence,Cluster analysis,Classifier (linguistics),Random forest,Interactive media,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
76
2
1573-7721
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
30
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Stefanos Vrochidis126373.19
Ioannis Patras21960123.15
Ioannis Kompatsiaris31404197.36