Machine Learned Classifiers for Rating the Content Quality in Videos using panels of human viewers

A multi-phase process first trains a machine learned rating classifier, and then uses the rating classifier to automatically rate videos in a selected category in a way which mimics human rating. Panels of human viewers rate videos in tuples, and these tuples along with human preference data distilled from the ratings are used to create a training set that is used to train the machine learned rating classifier. The rating classifier becomes capable of predicting human preferences with regards to videos in the selected category. Optionally a second machine learned classifier can be trained to automatically identify videos in the selected category for the panels of human viewers to rate. The output of the multi-phase process can be used to highlight content that is predicted to be higher quality.