Boosting Viewer Experience with Emotion-Driven Video Analysis: A BERT-based Framework for Social Media Content
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Social media has significantly transformed the digital landscape by enabling an unprecedented expansion of content, further accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which increased the demand for online classes, virtual meetings, and recorded conferences. While major technology companies have previously employed sentiment analysis and opinion mining to gauge user feedback, this study proposes a novel framework for emotion-based video content analysis. The proposed method extracts audio from social media videos and applies Speech-to-Text (STT) conversion. The extracted text is then processed using a pre-trained BERT model, leveraging its fine-tuned capabilities and 110 million parameters to enhance emotion recognition. To improve inference, we modify the initial embedding layers of BERT to refine emotional analysis for unseen video content, ensuring better alignment with viewers' emotional responses. Experimental results demonstrate that the pre-trained BERT model outperforms traditional deep learning and machine learning approaches, achieving 83% accuracy and an F1 score of 83. Comparatively, CNN and LSTM models achieved 74% and 73% accuracy, respectively, while SVM resulted in 72% accuracy. The proposed framework offers a more refined emotional analysis, potentially improving user engagement by making content more relatable and emotionally intuitive for viewers.
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TY - JOUR AU - Akbar, Zubair AU - Ghani, Muhammad Usman AU - Aziz, Umair PY - 2025 DA - 2025/04/16 TI - Boosting Viewer Experience with Emotion-Driven Video Analysis: A BERT-based Framework for Social Media Content JO - Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Bioinformatics T2 - Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Bioinformatics JF - Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Bioinformatics VL - 1 IS - 1 SP - 3 EP - 11 DO - 10.62762/JAIB.2025.954751 UR - https://www.icck.org/article/abs/JAIB.2025.954751 KW - motions classification KW - Pre-Trained BERT model KW - social media KW - video data KW - emotions analysis AB - Social media has significantly transformed the digital landscape by enabling an unprecedented expansion of content, further accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which increased the demand for online classes, virtual meetings, and recorded conferences. While major technology companies have previously employed sentiment analysis and opinion mining to gauge user feedback, this study proposes a novel framework for emotion-based video content analysis. The proposed method extracts audio from social media videos and applies Speech-to-Text (STT) conversion. The extracted text is then processed using a pre-trained BERT model, leveraging its fine-tuned capabilities and 110 million parameters to enhance emotion recognition. To improve inference, we modify the initial embedding layers of BERT to refine emotional analysis for unseen video content, ensuring better alignment with viewers' emotional responses. Experimental results demonstrate that the pre-trained BERT model outperforms traditional deep learning and machine learning approaches, achieving 83% accuracy and an F1 score of 83. Comparatively, CNN and LSTM models achieved 74% and 73% accuracy, respectively, while SVM resulted in 72% accuracy. The proposed framework offers a more refined emotional analysis, potentially improving user engagement by making content more relatable and emotionally intuitive for viewers. SN - 3068-7535 PB - Institute of Central Computation and Knowledge LA - English ER -
@article{Akbar2025Boosting,
author = {Zubair Akbar and Muhammad Usman Ghani and Umair Aziz},
title = {Boosting Viewer Experience with Emotion-Driven Video Analysis: A BERT-based Framework for Social Media Content},
journal = {Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Bioinformatics},
year = {2025},
volume = {1},
number = {1},
pages = {3-11},
doi = {10.62762/JAIB.2025.954751},
url = {https://www.icck.org/article/abs/JAIB.2025.954751},
abstract = {Social media has significantly transformed the digital landscape by enabling an unprecedented expansion of content, further accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which increased the demand for online classes, virtual meetings, and recorded conferences. While major technology companies have previously employed sentiment analysis and opinion mining to gauge user feedback, this study proposes a novel framework for emotion-based video content analysis. The proposed method extracts audio from social media videos and applies Speech-to-Text (STT) conversion. The extracted text is then processed using a pre-trained BERT model, leveraging its fine-tuned capabilities and 110 million parameters to enhance emotion recognition. To improve inference, we modify the initial embedding layers of BERT to refine emotional analysis for unseen video content, ensuring better alignment with viewers' emotional responses. Experimental results demonstrate that the pre-trained BERT model outperforms traditional deep learning and machine learning approaches, achieving 83\% accuracy and an F1 score of 83. Comparatively, CNN and LSTM models achieved 74\% and 73\% accuracy, respectively, while SVM resulted in 72\% accuracy. The proposed framework offers a more refined emotional analysis, potentially improving user engagement by making content more relatable and emotionally intuitive for viewers.},
keywords = {motions classification, Pre-Trained BERT model, social media, video data, emotions analysis},
issn = {3068-7535},
publisher = {Institute of Central Computation and Knowledge}
}
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