Automatic Video Annotation by Mining Speech Transcripts

We describe a model for automatic prediction of text annotations for video data. The speech transcripts of videos, are clustered using an aspect model and keywords are extracted based on aspect distribution. Thus we capture the semantic information available in the video data. This technique for automatic keyword vocabulary construction makes the labelling of video data a very easy task. We then build a video shot vocabulary by utilizing both static images and motion cues. We use a maximum entropy criterion to learn the conditional exponential model by defining constraint features over the shot vocabulary, keyword vocabulary combinations. Our method uses a maximum a posteriori estimate of exponential model to predict the annotations. We evaluate the ability of our model to predict annotations, in terms of mean negative log-likelihood and retrieval performance on the test set. A comparison of exponential model with baseline methods indicates that the results are encouraging.