2017/07/05 by Luca Rossetto, Rossetto, Luca, Heiko Schuldt +1
Computer Science · #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Multimedia (cs.MM) #cs.MM
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1707.01340
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arxiv created 2017/07/05 · arxiv updated 2017/07/06
Web video is often used as a source of data in various fields of study. While specialized subsets of web video, mainly earmarked for dedicated purposes, are often analyzed in detail, there is little information available about the properties of web video as a whole. In this paper we present insights gained from the analysis of the metadata associated with more than 120 million videos harvested from two popular web video platforms, vimeo and YouTube, in 2016 and compare their properties with the ones found in commonly used video collections. This comparison has revealed that existing collections do not (or no longer) properly reflect the properties of web video "in the wild".