Viewpoint analysis of video data

A computer program product for video analysis, the computer program product comprising one or more computer readable storage devices and collectively stored program instructions on the one or more computer readable storage devices, the stored program instructions comprising:

• program instructions to receive video data associated with a multi-participant meeting;
• program instructions to identify a first participant viewpoint, a related argument and an authoritative rank of a viewpoint-argument, from the video data using a machine learning model;
• program instructions to identify a first topic within the video data;
• program instructions to correlate the first participant viewpoint to the first topic;
• program instructions to determine a distance between the first participant viewpoint and a second participant viewpoint, the second participant viewpoint correlated to the first topic;
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• program instructions to provide a depiction of a relationship between the first participant viewpoint, the related argument, the authoritative rank of the viewpoint-argument, and the second participant viewpoint according to the distance.

A computer system for video analysis, the computer system comprising:

• one or more computer processors;
• one or more computer readable storage devices;
• and
• stored program instructions on the one or more computer readable storage devices for execution by the one or more computer processors, the stored program instructions comprising:
• program instructions to receive video data associated with a multi-participant meeting;
• program instructions to identify a first participant viewpoint, a related argument and an authoritative rank of a viewpoint-argument, from the video data using a machine learning model;
• program instructions to identify a first topic within the video data;
• program instructions to correlate the first participant viewpoint to the first topic;
• program instructions to determine a distance between the first participant viewpoint and a second participant viewpoint, the second participant viewpoint correlated to the first topic;
• and
• program instructions to provide a depiction of a relationship between the first participant viewpoint, the related argument, the authoritative rank of the viewpoint-argument, and the second participant viewpoint according to the distance.