Title
Semantic Highlight Retrieval and Term Prediction.
Abstract
Due to the unprecedented growth of unedited videos, finding highlights relevant to a text query in a set of unedited videos has become increasingly important. We refer this task as semantic highlight retrieval and propose a query-dependent video representation for retrieving a variety of highlights. Our method consists of two parts: 1) “viralets”, a mid-level representation bridging between semantic [Fig. 1(a)] and visual [Fig. 1(c)] spaces and 2) a novel Semantic-MODulation (SMOD) procedure to make viralets query-dependent (referred to as SMOD viralets). Given SMOD viralets, we train a single highlight ranker to predict the highlightness of clips with respect to a variety of queries (two examples in Fig. 1), whereas existing approaches can be applied only in a few predefined domains. Other than semantic highlight retrieval, viralets can also be used to associate relevant terms to each video. We utilize this property and propose a simple term prediction method based on nearest neighbor search. To conduct experiments, we collect a viral video dataset1 including users’ comments, highlights, and/or original videos. Among a testing database with 1189 clips (13% highlights and 87% non-highlights), our highlight ranker achieves 41.2% recall at top-10 retrieved clips. It is significantly higher than the state-of-the-art domain-specific highlight ranker and its extension. Similarly, our method also outperforms all baseline methods on the publicly available video highlight dataset. Finally, our simple term prediction method utilizing viralets outperforms the state-of-the-art matrix factorization method (adapted from Kalayeh et al.). 1 Viral videos refer to popular online videos. We focus on user-generated viral videos, which typically contain short highlight marked by users.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/TIP.2017.2666039
IEEE Trans. Image Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Videos,Semantics,Visualization,Databases,Prediction methods,Nearest neighbor searches,Tagging
Information retrieval,Visualization,Computer science,Matrix decomposition,Recall,Nearest neighbor search,Semantics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
26
7
1057-7149
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.39
44
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Min Sun1108359.15
Kuo-Hao Zeng2222.36
Yen-Chen Lin3363.92
Ali Farhadi44492190.40