IndiaDiscuss - Google Research : Quantifying comedy on YouTube: why the number of o’s in your LOL matter http://indiadiscuss.com/research/google-research-quantifying-comedy-on-youtube-why-the-number-of-o%E2%80%99s-in-your-lol-matter-/ We wondered if we could do the same for funny videos, i.e. answer questions such as: is a video funny, how funny do viewers think it is, and why is it funny? We noticed a few audiovisual patterns across comedy videos on YouTube, such as shaky camera motion or audible laughter, which we can automatically detect. While content-based features worked well for music Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:45:37 MST en