Automated Creation of Movie Summaries in Interactive Virtual Environments

  • Authors:
  • Doron Friedman;Yishai A. Feldman;Ariel Shamir;Tsvi Dagan

  • Affiliations:
  • University College of London;The Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya;The Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya;The Academic College of Tel Aviv Yaffo

  • Venue:
  • VR '04 Proceedings of the IEEE Virtual Reality 2004
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Virtual environments and artificial worlds are becoming multi-user, complex, and long lasting. Someone who was away from the environment for a while may wish to beinformed of interesting events that happened during herabsence without watching hours or even days of interaction. A movie is the natural medium for such a summary.At the end of a long interaction, participants may wish forsuch a movie as a keepsake. However, creating a moviesummary of a given set of events is delicate, complicated,and time-consuming. In this paper we discuss some ofthe issues involved in creating a tool that can create suchmovie summaries automatically. We describe the stagesin transforming a chronicle of events into a movie andpresent an implementation of such a system. We show results of transforming a log from a life-simulation game to a movie script.