Previewing video content with dynamic and interactable collage
Journal
SIGGRAPH Asia 2012
Date Issued
2012
Author(s)
Abstract
With the growing use of digital cameras and video recorders, video creation and distribution are becoming easier. While more and more videos are easily accessible, the burden of browsing the video contents also grows exponentially. It is challenge to effectively browse a collection of videos at once and pick those users want. Even current video summarization methods either combine salient shots into a short video, or pack a collection of keyframe in a static image. In this extended abstract, we present a dynamic collage system that aims to enable simultaneous browsing of a collection of videos. The important portions of videos are extracted and packed one by one in the same canvas, and are played simultaneously. An efficient layout algorithm is proposed to enable the system to respond to content changes and users' interactions efficiently, and the method encourages the canvas to be compact and informative. Therefore, the system provides an interface to efficiently browse and rediscover those interesting contents from a collection of video files.
Type
journal article