Demo abstract: FOCUS: Clustering crowdsourced videos by line-of-sight

Abstract

We present a demonstration of FOCUS [1], a system to appear in the SenSys 2013 main conference. FOCUS is a video-clustering service for live user video streams, indexed automatically and in realtime by shared content. FOCUS uniquely leverages visual, 3D model reconstruction and multimodal sensing to decipher and continuously track a video's line-of-sight. Through spatial reasoning on the relative geometry of multiple video streams, FOCUS recognizes shared content even when viewed from diverse angles and distances. We believe FOCUS can enable a new family of applications, such as instant replay, augmented reality, citizen journalism, security breach detection, and disaster assessment.