Highlight Detection In Video
Highlight Detection, literally high-light detection, is generally applied in images or videos. This article focuses on video scenarios, where the task is to find “highlight” segments from a long video. “Highlight” is a very broad definition, unlike CTR/CVR which have clear meanings. Highlight definition varies by scenario: for e-commerce livestream, highlight segments might be the time periods with highest GMV; for non-commerce livestream, highlights might be time periods with most viewers or gifts.
Highlight Detection has wide practical applications: video sites like iQIYI and Bilibili automatically play some segments when hovering over videos - these can be considered highlight segments. Mainstream livestream platforms provide replay tools with highlight segment candidates. Besides user-facing, advertisers/merchants also get similar products, such as Qianchuan, Kuaishou Jinniu platforms.
Highlight Detection is a research direction in academia, but academic research is limited to several manually annotated datasets and can’t be directly applied to production environments. The reason is the highlight definition varies by scenario, requiring different datasets. There are many Highlight Detection papers. This article mainly covers 2 papers closer to industry, focusing on highlight supervision signal definition, loss function design, and dataset acquisition.
