Audiovisual, Genre, Neural and Topical Textual Embeddings for TV Programme Content Representation

TV programmes have their contents described by multiple means: textual subtitles, audiovisual files, and metadata such as genres. In order to represent these contents, we develop vectorial representations for their low-level multimodal features, group them with simple clustering techniques, and combine them using middle and late fusion. For textual features, we use LSI and Doc2Vec neural embeddings; for audio, MFCC's and Bags of Audio Words; for visual, SIFT, and Bags of Visual Words. We apply our model to a dataset of BBC TV programmes and use a standard recommender and pairwise similarity matrices of content vectors to estimate viewers' behaviours. The late fusion of genre, audio and video vectors with both of the textual embeddings significantly increase the precision and diversity of the results.