Automatically converting photographic series into video

  • Authors:
  • Xian-Sheng Hua;Lie Lu;Hong-Jiang Zhang

  • Affiliations:
  • Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China;Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China;Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 12th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

In this paper, we proposed a novel way to browse a series of otogras, which can be regarded as a system exploring the new medium between otogra and video. The scheme exploits the rich content embedded in a single otogra and otograic series. Based on studying the process of a viewer's attention variation on objects or regions of an image, a otogra can be converted into a motion clip. A system named oto2Video was developed to automatically convert a otograic series into a video by simulating camera motions, set to incidental music of the user's choice. For a selected otograic series, an appropriate set of key-frames are determined for each otogra based on soisticated content analytical results. Then camera motion pattern (both the key-frame sequencing scheme and trajectory/speed control strategy) is selected for each otogra to generate a corresponding motion otogra clip. And last, the final output video is rendered by connecting a series of motion otogra clips with specific transitions based on the content of the images on either side, as well as each motion otogra clip is aligned with the selected incidental music based on music content analysis.