Presentation for the FutureTV session at EuroITV 2013. See http://www.linkedtv.eu/event/futuretv2013/. Paper presented by Lotte Belice Baltussen of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. Lotte Belice Baltussen, Roeland Ordelman, Jaap Blom. VideoHypE: An Editor Tool for Supervised Automatic Video Hyperlinking. In 11th European Interactive TV Conference (EuroITV 2013), June 2013, Como, Italy.

1. Television Linked To The Web
www.linkedtv.eu
Lotte Belice Baltussen, Roeland Ordelman, Jaap Blom
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
VideoHypE: An Editor Tool for Supervised
Automatic Video Hyperlinking
EuroITV | Como, Italy – 24 June 2013

2. 2
www.linkedtv.eu
 LinkedTV: interweaving Web and TV into a
single experience
 Mixing lean back and lean forward
 Want to maintain immersion while removing fourth
wall illusion
 Works only for certain genres and audiences
 Does second screen help or hinder?
The LinkedTV vision
linkedtv.eu

3. 3
www.linkedtv.eu
Scenarios and content
Enriched News
 Professional news content
produced by RBB for general
audience
 local news show rbb Aktuell
 People, locations and events
can be linked to previous
events.
Antiques Interactive
 Program watched
predominantly by 50+ers
 AVRO:
Tussen Kunst en Kitsch (TKK)
 Objects, locations and
experts provide anchors to
related materials (targets).
linkedtv.eu

4. 4
www.linkedtv.eu
Antiques Interactive: Enriched link demo
linkedtv.eu

5. 5
www.linkedtv.eu
dbpedia.org/resource/Jan_Sluyters
Workflow
linkedtv.eu
Paintings by Jan Sluijters
“...painting of Jan Sluijters....”
Hypervideo
analysis
Presentation
engine
Named Entity
Recognition
Enriching NEs with
web content
Generation of
media fragments

6. 6
www.linkedtv.eu
dbpedia.org/resource/Jan_Sluyters
Workflow
linkedtv.eu
Paintings by Jan Sluijters
“...painting of Jan Sluijters....”
Hypervideo
analysis
Presentation
engine
Named Entity
Recognition
Enriching NEs with
web content
Generation of
media fragments
VideoHypE

7. 7
www.linkedtv.eu
Why do we need VideoHypE?
, Roeland Ordelman1
 Broadcasters want to have some control.
 Editors have the expertise to determine relevance +
 The user interface can only show a limited amount of links, and there are many
 Research: sample 805 videos, average 55 NEs per video. 55 NEs = many, many
possible links depending on the size of the white list [Li et al., 2013]
NE - person: Jan Sluijters
NE – art syle: Fauvism
NE - person: Emiel Aardewerk
Link white list 1
Link white list 2
Link white list 3
Link white list 6
Link white list 7
Link white list etc etc
Link white list 4
Link white list 5

8. 8
www.linkedtv.eu
VideoHypE requirements
, Roeland Ordelman1
 Requirements session with 5 AVRO editorial members +
digital staff of TKK. Main outcomes:
1. Selecting from list of available episodes
2. Create and edit chapters
3. Timeline with chapters
4. See annotations per chapters, distinction between entity types
5. Select annotations + related hyperlinks
6. Add selected, approved hyperlinks
7. Timeline with enities and hyperlinks
8. Add new hyperlinks to media fragments (e.g. shots/chapters/spatial)
9. Remove hyperlinks and/or entities (per media fragment or episode)
10. Separate user environment for each end user partner
11. Adding to white list
12. Sorting on entity types
13. Collaborative space
14. Delete annotations forever
15. Level of completion per chapter / episode
16. Variable # suggested links depending on time pressure
MAX 20-30 minutes per episode!!!

9. 9
www.linkedtv.eu
Demo overview – choose your video
, Roeland Ordelman1

10. 10
www.linkedtv.eu
Demo overview – shot overview
, Roeland Ordelman1

11. 11
www.linkedtv.eu
Demo overview - chapters
, Roeland Ordelman1

12. 12
www.linkedtv.eu
Demo overview – selecting entities
, Roeland Ordelman1

13. 13
www.linkedtv.eu
Demo overview – selecting links per entity
, Roeland Ordelman1

14. 14
www.linkedtv.eu
Demo overview – editor‘s choices overview
, Roeland Ordelman1

15. 15
www.linkedtv.eu
Demo overview – adding links
, Roeland Ordelman1

16. 17
www.linkedtv.eu
1. Implementing remaining requirements.
2. How to make the editor tool scalable?
• Different programmes, different requirements
• How to deal with live content?
• There is not just one front-end => one-screen solutions, 2nd screens, multiple
screens, etc.
1. Personalisation: what ‘bandwith’ is left personalisation?
2. Relevance is a crucial issue – how can the system ‘learn’?
3. User testing with real editors
VideoHypE – discussion & future work

17. 18
www.linkedtv.eu
Thanks!
, Roeland Ordelman1
Find me here:
@lottebelice | lbbaltussen@beeldengeluid.nl
Credits:
Again: other authors are Roeland Ordelman and Jaap Blom
Slides partly by: Lynda Hardman (CWI)
Heaps of thanks to AVRO for so generously letting LinkedTV use their content.
Links:
www.linkedtv.eu
twitter.com/BenGlabs
www.avro.nl