Item-Based video recommendation: An hybrid approach considering human factors

In this paper we propose a method for video recommendation in Social Networks based on crowdsourced and automatic video annotations of salient frames. We show how two human factors, users' self-expression in user profiles and perception of visual saliency in videos, can be exploited in order to stimulate annotations and to obtain an efficient representation of video content features. Results are assessed through experiments conducted on a prototype of social network for video sharing. Several baseline approaches are evaluated and we show how the proposed method improves over them.