AI RESEARCH
MMTM: Tri-Modal Topic Modeling for Long-Form Video via Similarity-Gated Fusion
arXiv CS.LG
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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 coherent