This demo enables the automatic creation of semantically annotated YouTube media fragments. A video is first ingested in the Synote system and a new method enables to retrieve its associated subtitles or closed captions. Next, NERD is used to extract named entities from the transcripts which are then temporally aligned with the video. The entities are disambiguated in the LOD cloud and a user i...

Since its development, YouTube, the world’s third most popular online destination, has transformed from a video-sharing site into a job opportunity for content creators in both new and mainstream media. Based on content analysis, the study examined how three prominent YouTubers have created a successful personal brand. Analysis revealed the common characteristics that these online celebrities s...

Social networking sites are among the most frequently visited on the web (Cha et al. 2007) and their use has expanded into professional contexts for expertise sharing and knowledge discovery (Millen, Feinberg and Kerr 2006). These virtual communities can be enormous, with millions of users and shared resources. Social multimedia websites, such as YouTube, are particularly popular. Network traff...

The development explained in this article proves that is possible to trace dishonest users who upload videos with sensitive content to the YouTube service. To achieve tracing these traitor users, fingerprint marks are embedded by a watermarking algorithm into each copy of the video before distributing it. Our experiments show that if the watermarking algorithm is carefully configured and the fi...

Children's engagement with Japanese toys and fictional characters has taken on new significance in the age of YouTube. Drawing on ethnographic research on technology-mediated play among 8- and 9-year-olds in Norway, this article shows how boundaries between "real" humans and "fake" non-humans are blurred and undermined when children take on the perspective of a fictional pop star known as Miku....

BACKGROUND Direct ophthalmoscopy is well-suited for video-based instruction, particularly if the videos enable the student to see what the examiner sees when performing direct ophthalmoscopy. We evaluated the pedagogical effectiveness of instructional YouTube videos on direct ophthalmoscopy by evaluating their content and approach to visualization. METHODS In order to synthesize main themes a...

Master of Science in Information and Communication Technologies by Georgios Dimopoulos In this thesis, the YouTube service and the traffic generated from its usage was analyzed. The purpose of this study was to identify the information in the monitored traffic that could be used as metrics or indicators of the progress of individual video sessions. For this purpose, a tool was developed to perf...

In this new age of digital multimedia content and internet audiences, the entertainment industry and the path to stardom is slowly evolving. Many aspiring musicians can now achieve fame by performing the works of other famous artists, and sharing their performances on sites such as Youtube. Aspiring artists and other content generators on Youtube are always advised by marketing experts to inclu...

Cooking is a human activity with sophisticated process. Underlying the multitude of culinary recipes, there exist a set of fundamental and general cooking techniques, such as cutting, braising, slicing, and sauntering, etc. These skills are hard to learn through cooking recipes, which only provide textual instructions about certain dishs. Although visual instructions such as videos are more dir...