arXiv:2605.29765v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce MMTM, a modular pipeline for topic discovery in long-form video that integrates speech recognition, audio and visual embeddings, and BERTopic clustering through a deterministic similarity-gated fusion. Evaluated cross-lingually on German (Tagesschau) and English (NBC) broadcast news, joint tri-modal modeling substantially improves topic quality: noise drops from 0.27 to 0.06, transition rate from 0.70 to 0.21, and normalized entropy rises from 0.84 to 0.92, indicating more coherent and temporally stable topics. Cluster validity (Cali
The proliferation of long-form video content and advanced multimodal AI research are converging to enable more sophisticated content analysis and topic discovery.
Improved topic modeling for video will enhance content discovery, information retrieval, and potentially enable new forms of automated content analysis and generation, impacting media, intelligence, and education.
Topic modeling accuracy and coherence for long-form video content significantly improve through multimodal fusion, moving beyond text-only or single-modality methods.
- · Content creators and platforms
- · Media monitoring services
- · AI/ML researchers in multimodal learning
- · Intelligence and analysis agencies
- · Monodal topic modeling solutions
- · Content archives without multimodal indexing
More accurate and efficient analysis of vast video datasets becomes possible.
Automated summarization and highlight generation for long videos improve substantially, reducing manual effort.
This could lead to more nuanced AI agents capable of understanding and interacting with complex video content, enabling new applications in education, entertainment, and industrial operations.
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