Video Annotation and Indexing System

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News

  • NEW PROJECT FOR 2009: UNDER CONSTRUCTION -- STAY TUNED

    Description

    The goal of this project is to improve the ability of people to share information in video format. We will develop technologies that will enhance the ability for video data to be indexed and searched.

    This technology will be initially deployed in the classroom to improve the educational experience of students.

    Related technologies include:

    • Comment Analysis
    • Topic Detection
    • Data Streaming
    • Interface Design
    • ...

    Papers

    1. Wai Gen Yee, Andrew Yates, Shizhu Liu, Ophir Frieder: Are Web User Comments Useful to Search? Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Systems for Information Retrieval, 2009.

    Data

    1. YouTube Data Set 1: Title, description, keywords, and comments of 3,500 random videos, 500 popular videos from February, 2009 and 10,0000 random videos and 1,500 popular videos from May, 2009. Used in paper 1 above. 300MB Zipped file. Details (TXT).