Systems and Methods for Video Genre Classification

A system comprising:

• a processing system;
• and
• a memory coupled to the processing system, the memory comprising computer executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, perform operations comprising:
• receiving video content;
• sampling a plurality of sliding windows of the video content, the plurality of sliding windows comprising audio data and video data;
• identifying a set of audio features by analyzing the audio data;
• identifying a set of video features by analyzing the video data;
• detecting a genre for the video content using the set of audio features and the set of video features;
• and
• indexing the video content based on the genre.

A system comprising:

• a sampling module stored in memory and configured to sample a plurality of sliding windows of video content, the plurality of sliding windows comprising audio data and video data;
• an audio analyzing module stored in memory and configured to analyze the audio data to identify a set of audio features;
• a video analyzing module stored in memory and configured to analyze the video data to identify a set of video features;
• a classifier stored in memory and configured to detect a genre for the video content using the set of audio features and the set of video features;
• and
• an indexer stored in memory and configured to index the video content based on the genre.