Patent ID: 8737817

Claim:
A method for recommending one or more soundtracks for a source video, the method comprising: extracting a set of content features from the source video, the content features including visual features of the source video; determining a set of semantic features from the content features of the source video, the semantic features describing one or more topics; determining a set of semantically similar videos, each semantically similar video having semantic features similar to the semantic features of the source video, each semantically similar video having an associated soundtrack; for each semantically similar video in the set of semantically similar videos: identifying an associated soundtrack of the video; identifying a plurality of other videos that use the same associated soundtrack; and determining a typicality score of the associated soundtrack based on a distance between the semantic features of the video and the semantic features of the identified plurality of other videos using the same associated soundtrack, the typicality score indicating a usage typicality of the soundtrack associated with the video compared against the identified plurality of other videos; and selecting the soundtrack of at least one of the semantically similar videos to recommend as a soundtrack for the source video based upon the typicality score of the soundtrack.