Video Analysis Tools for Annotating User-Generated Content from Social Events

In this presentation we present how low-level metadata extraction tools have been applied in the context of a pan-European project called Together Anywhere, Together Anytime (TA2). The TA2 project studies new forms of computer-mediated social communications between spatially and temporally distant people. In particular, we concentrate on automatic video analysis tools in an asynchronous community-based video sharing environment called MyVideos, in which users can experience and share personalized music concert videos within their social group