Patent ID: 8904517

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving, by a computer, video from one or more video sources; determining, by the computer, that contextual interpretation of the video requires human assistance based on at least one user-defined objective including user-defined criteria for the contextual interpretation, the criteria including one or more physical objects; determining, by the computer, one or more portions of the video that require human assistance for the contextual interpretation based on the at least one user-defined objective by identifying the one or more physical objects in the one or more portions of the video; generating, by the computer, one or more questions associated with the one or more portions of the video based on the at least one user-defined objective, wherein the one or more questions regard the one or more physical objects identified in the one or more portions of the video; sending, by the computer, the one or more portions of the video and the one or more questions to one or more assistants; receiving, by the computer, one or more answers to the one or more questions from the one or more assistants; and determining, by the computer, a contextual interpretation of the video based on the one or more answers and the video.