Content-based browsing and editing of unstructured video

Abstract

The focus of this paper is to build a set of tools that analyze, characterize, and prepare footage shot with a camera for unanticipated uses. The idea is to take this ensemble of raw stuff and use it in interesting ways that are not just making a sequence out of them. Some of the possible uses of such unstructured video are: Make a time slice of a person or a series of events, select a group of shots and make a postcard out of them, make a collage of shots, make a SalientStillTM, storyboard etc. We employ novel distribution clustering algorithms to enable browsing unstructured video. The browser permits navigation of content and extraction of stills, collages and summaries from unstructured video.