Building the howto100m Video Corpus

Data Skeptic

• Episode: Building the howto100m Video Corpus
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• Published: 2019-08-19 22:12

Video annotation is an expensive and time-consuming process. As a consequence, the available video datasets are useful but small. The availability of machine transcribed explainer videos offers a unique opportunity to rapidly develop a useful, if dirty, corpus of videos that are "self annotating", as hosts explain the actions they are taking on the screen.