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marr75 t1_j3c7zik wrote

I'm not following what you're saying but you can detect all local minima with a single function call, order them and know their summary statistics with a second function call, and come up with a threshold based comparison for the end of the video if that's what you want.

None of this requires a machine learning model. You lost me when you mixed in "only when an ad occurs". Do you have any data that would help you train such a model? Are you just trying to detect ads? You could:

  • identify all local minima attention drops
  • engineer features such as distance into video, length of drop (time spent below average before and after local minima), magnitude of drop
  • perform unsupervised learning, i.e. PCA/t-sne/k-means
  • hope the "structural" features identified by unsupervised learning help you organize ads vs non-ads (they might!)

Again, not a complicated system because you don't have complex features as you've described them.

Is this just a novelty project? The way you're asking about it makes me think there's a low chance of follow through and your questions are kind of "arguing" towards a more complicated model. Run whatever code you are capable of then, I guess. I will probably decline to give further advice if that trend of leading questions continues.

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C0R0NA_CHAN OP t1_j3caf7o wrote

Cool thanks, will try it out. This is just a side project i was trying. I just wanted to practically explore more about time series and how to pass multiple of them to a rnn model. My current objective is what I have written in the post's description. The " detecting ad" one was just a feature i thought of at that time of writing the reply. "If in future I wanted to extend the application how do I proceed with it" that's what the motive was behind asking that to you. Either way thanks, and sorry if I came out as "arguing".

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