New Feature! Discover by Character Dec 18, 200811:23 PST

As part of our never-ending quest to help make cool videos easier for you to find, VideoSurf is very excited to announce our new Discover Videos by Character feature. We’ve taken our computer vision technology, which can see inside videos, and put it to work in identifying and measuring which personalities are most visible, and therefore popular, on the Web. Since our computers can recognize and follow Britney Spears every time she appears on screen, we can determine, based on the frequency and duration of her appearances, how popular she is. Based on what we know about every character’s screen time, we keep a running rank of who’s most popular by category and you can see those characters listed from left to right in order of importance. When you click on any of the faces you’ll find all the videos and moments in which that character appeared.

It’s a new kind of relevancy for video that ranks importance based on the content of the video, rather than just what the text associated with it says is important. Try it out and let us know what you think!