Video Indexing and Retrieval for Interactive E-Learning

Abstract—As a powerful and expressive nontextual media that can capture and present information, instructional videos are extensively used in e-Learning (Web-based distance learning). Since each video may cover many subjects, it is critical for an e-Learning environment to have content-based video searching capabilities to meet diverse individual learning needs. In this paper, we present an interactive multimedia-based e-Learning environment that enables users to interact with it to obtain knowl-edge in the form of logically segmented video clips. We propose a natural language approach to content-based video indexing and retrieval to identify appropriate video clips that can address users’ needs. The method integrates natural language processing, named entity extraction, frame-based indexing, and information retrieval techniques to explore knowledge-on-demand in a video-based interactive e-Learning environment. A preliminary evaluation shows that precision and recall of this approach are better than those of the traditional keyword based approach. Index Terms—Learning by asking, natural language processing, video indexing and retrieval. I