Video Knowledge Graph Creation for Note Cross-Referencing

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Solution Overview

Problem

It is difficult for viewers to cross-reference notes taken during online videos with the video content, as existing technologies lack effective methods for linking video segments with corresponding notes.

Innovation Solution

A computer-implemented method for creating a knowledge graph for a video, which extracts audio and video information, groups them by timestamps, extracts keywords, identifies relationships, and creates a graph with nodes and links representing concepts and relationships, allowing for the combination of video knowledge with personal knowledge graphs.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If video information is processed and stored with timestamps to enable cross-referencing, then the ability to cross-reference notes with video content is improved, but the system complexity and processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecross-referencing capabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The video content is segmented into discrete units with timestamps, and the knowledge graph is segmented into nodes and edges. Each node represents a concept or entity, while edges represent relationships between them. This segmentation allows for efficient cross-referencing by breaking down the complex video content into manageable, indexable units that can be individually linked to notes.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

A knowledge graph is introduced as an intermediary layer between the video content and user notes. The knowledge graph extracts entities, concepts, and relationships from the video, creating a structured representation that serves as a bridge. This intermediary enables efficient cross-referencing without requiring direct complex matching between raw video data and notes.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Loss of information

If a knowledge graph is created with multiple nodes and links representing concepts and relationships, then the visualization of concepts and relationships is improved, but the computational resources and processing time increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation organizationVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The knowledge graph is built in advance by extracting entities, concepts, and relationships from the video content during an initial processing phase. This preliminary action organizes the information structure before actual user interaction, so that during viewing and note-taking, the cross-referencing operations can proceed quickly by querying the pre-organized knowledge graph rather than processing raw video data in real-time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Measurement precision

If audio and video information are extracted and grouped by timestamps, then the accuracy of video segment identification is improved, but the data processing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetimestamp accuracyVSAvoidprocessing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

Audio information and video information are merged into a unified temporal structure based on timestamps. The system synchronizes audio tracks with video frames, creating a cohesive representation where each timestamp point contains both audio and visual data. This merging simplifies subsequent processing by providing a unified data source rather than requiring separate handling of audio and video streams.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS11928145B1Creating a knowledge graph for a video
Publication Date: 2024.03.12 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION
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AI summary

Methods for creating a knowledge graph for a video are disclosed. Aspects include obtaining the video, processing the video to extract audio information and video information, and storing the extracted audio information and video information with a timestamp corresponding its occurrence in the video. Aspects also include creating a plurality of groups of the extracted audio information and video information based at least in part on the timestamps and extracting two or more keywords from each of the plurality of groups. Aspects further include identifying a relationship between the two or more keywords based on the extracted audio information and video information and creating a graph having a plurality of nodes and a plurality of links that connect a pair of nodes of the plurality of nodes. Each node corresponds to an extracted keyword and each link corresponds to the identified relationship between the pair of nodes.