Crowdsourcing visual detectors for video search

In this paper we study social tagging at the video fragment-level using a combination of automated content understanding and the wisdom of the crowds. We are interested in the question whether crowdsourcing can be beneficial to a video search engine that automatically recognizes video fragments on a semantic level. To answer this question, we perform a 3-month online field study with a concert video search engine targeted at a dedicated user community of pop concert enthusiasts. We harvest the feedback of more than 500 active users and perform two experiments. In experiment 1 we measure user incentive to provide feedback, in experiment 2 we study the tradeoff between feedback quality and quantity when aggregated over multiple users. Results show that users provide sufficient feedback, which becomes highly reliable when a crowd agreement of 67% is enforced.