Combining multiple low-level visual features is a proven and effective strategy for a range of computer vision tasks. However, limited attention has been paid to combining such features with information from other modalities, such as audio and videotext, for large scale analysis of web videos. In our work, we rigorously analyze and combine a large set of low-level features that capture appearance, color, motion, audio and audio-visual co-occurrence patterns in videos. We also evaluate the utility of high-level (i.e., semantic) visual information obtained from detecting scene, object, and action concepts. Further, we exploit multimodal information by analyzing available spoken and videotext content using state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) and videotext recognition systems. We combine these diverse features using a two-step strategy employing multiple kernel learning (MKL) and late score level fusion methods. Based on the TRECVID MED 2011 evaluations for detecting 10 events in a large benchmark set of ∼45000 videos, our system showed the best performance among the 19 international teams.
We present two techniques that are shown to yield improved Keyword Spotting (KWS) performance when using the ATWV/MTWV performance measures: (i) score normalization, where the scores of different keywords become commensurate with each other and they more closely correspond to the probability of being correct than raw posteriors; and (ii) system combination, where the detections of multiple systems are merged together, and their scores are interpolated with weights which are optimized using MTWV as the maximization criterion. Both score normalization and system combination approaches show that significant gains in ATWV/MTWV can be obtained, sometimes on the order of 8-10 points (absolute), in five different languages. A variant of these methods resulted in the highest performance for the official surprise language evaluation for the IARPA-funded Babel project in April 2013.
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