Semantic Labeling of Multimedia Content Clusters

In this paper we present a novel approach for labeling clusters of multimedia content that leverages supervised classification techniques in conjunction with unsupervised clustering. Recent research has produced significant results for automatic tagging of video content such as broadcast news. For example, powerful techniques have been demonstrated in the context of the NIST TRECVID video retrieval benchmark. However, the information needs of users typically span a range of semantic concepts. One of the challenges of these multimedia retrieval systems is to organize the video data in such a way that allows the user to most efficiently navigate the semantic space for the video data set. One important tool for video data organization is clustering. However, clustering results cannot be leveraged effectively when they are not labeled. We propose to build on clustering by aggregating the automatically tagged semantics. We propose and compare four techniques for labeling the clusters and evaluate the performance compared to human labeled ground-truth. We present examples of the cluster labeling results obtained on the BBC stock shots from the TRECVID-2005 video data set