ISCA Archive Interspeech 2017
ISCA Archive Interspeech 2017

Automatic Explanation Spot Estimation Method Targeted at Text and Figures in Lecture Slides

Shoko Tsujimura, Kazumasa Yamamoto, Seiichi Nakagawa

Because of the spread of the Internet in recent years, e-learning, which is a form of learning through the Internet, has been used in school education. Many lecture videos delivered at The Open University of Japan show lecturers and lecture slides alternately. In such video style, it is hard to understand where on the slide the lecturer is explaining. In this paper, we examined methods to automatically estimate spots where the lecturer explains on the slide using lecture speech and slide data. This technology is expected to help learners to study the lectures. For itemized text slides, using DTW with word embedding based distance, we obtained higher estimation accuracy than a previous work. For slides containing figures, we estimated explanation spots using image classification results and text in the charts. In addition, we modified the lecture browsing system to indicate estimation results on slides, and investigated the usefulness of indicating explanation spots by subjective evaluation with the system.


doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2017-750

Cite as: Tsujimura, S., Yamamoto, K., Nakagawa, S. (2017) Automatic Explanation Spot Estimation Method Targeted at Text and Figures in Lecture Slides. Proc. Interspeech 2017, 2764-2768, doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2017-750

@inproceedings{tsujimura17_interspeech,
  author={Shoko Tsujimura and Kazumasa Yamamoto and Seiichi Nakagawa},
  title={{Automatic Explanation Spot Estimation Method Targeted at Text and Figures in Lecture Slides}},
  year=2017,
  booktitle={Proc. Interspeech 2017},
  pages={2764--2768},
  doi={10.21437/Interspeech.2017-750}
}