In this paper, we propose a video scene annotation method based on tag clouds. First, user comments associated with a video
are collected from existing video sharing services. Next, a tag cloud is generated from these user comments. The tag cloud
is displayed on the video window of the Web browser. When users click on a tag included in the tag cloud while watching the
video, the tag gets associated with the time point of the video. Users can share the information on the tags that have already
been clicked. We confirmed that the coverage of annotations generated by this method is higher than that of the existing methods,
and users are motivated to add tags by using tag-sharing and tag-cloud methods. This method assists in establishing highly
accurate advanced video applications.
Keywords Collaborative Tagging - Video Annotation - Tag-cloud - Web Service