User-adaptive home video summarization using personal photo libraries

  • Authors:
  • Yuichiro Takeuchi;Masanori Sugimoto

  • Affiliations:
  • The University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan;The University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 6th ACM international conference on Image and video retrieval
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a user-adaptive video summarization system which accounts for individual preferences by analyzing contents of the user's personal photo library. Nowadays, it is common practice for people to keep thousands of photos in their PCs, taken with their digital cameras. Due to the similarities in characteristics between video and still photos, we assume that these libraries can be used to infer each user's preferences on video summarization. The system uses image classification techniques to determine which sections of the movie are "important" to the user, and performs summarization by cutting off sections regarded as unimportant, while taking care not to overly disrupt the continuity of the video. We have implemented a prototype of the system, and conducted a series of evaluation tests to assess its effectiveness. The results show that our overall approach has the potential to serve as a powerful automatic/semi-automatic video summarization solution.