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CMU System Lets You Get To the Good Parts of Video, Fast
coondoggie (973519) writes "While Video has become ubiquitous thanks mostly to smartphones it doesn't mean you want to actually watch all of it. Carnegie Mellon University computer scientists say they have invented a video highlighting technique called LiveLight that can automatically pick out action in videos shot by smartphones, GoPro cameras, or Google Glass users."
This system is stupid when you can accomplish the same thing by modifying your host file ... apk
Haven't been watching enough pron, have you?
Looking forward to when you'll be able to efficiently scan huge volumes of smartphone video for the interesting segments, using hardware-accelerated NOOP technology.
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It'd be nice to have this for watching movies and TV shows. There's only probably 15 minutes worth of good content in any given TV episode, and maybe 30 minutes in a movie!
Sad to live in a world were thinking about how they'll use that for surveillance is obligatory.
Does it get me to the part with the boobies?
If you hate ./ so much, there is soylentnews.org and pipedot.org.....just saying....
Think about it... A good algorithm should be smart enough to filter out unwanted content such as ads :)
pretty amazing tech for 1994, though this CMU development is obviously doing it in a much more sophisticated way, similar to analysis done for video compression
forgot to add a link to the SS
What does the device used to record have to do with it?
FTA:
“A particularly cool application is using LiveLight to automatically digest videos from, say, GoPro or Google Glass, and quickly upload thumbnail trailers to social media. The summarization process thus avoids generating costly Internet data charges and tedious manual editing on long videos. This application, along with the surveillance camera auto-summarization, is now being developed for the retail market by PanOptus Inc., a startup founded by the inventors of LiveLight,” the researchers stated.
Oh so they want to pitch it to those particular users. As well as for police dashcams, etc.
So many rule #34 jokes, so little time.
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This already exists; the first 30% of any video can be skipped because it contains no interesting content. Indeed, you can append "&wadsworth=1" to the end of any YouTube video URL to load the video 30% in. No algorithm is really necessary, though I suppose wadsworth could be used as a starting point for a bidirectional search to speed up the algorithm if you really wanted to be sure.
On Star Wars Episode VII?
I was going to say episode I, but it has already been done manually.
Also, how about a technology that skips whatever isn't from the book in the lord of the rings and hobbit movies?
I apologize for the lack of a signature.
But it returned error 52: no good parts found
CMU developed a money shot finder.
Written material has much higher information density an is easier to peruse without annoying others. It's also more easily indexable and browsable. Still pictures embedded in the text can bring enhancement. Why are all of you people are thinking video is so great (and here I mean for transmission of information, not entertainment)?. Are even technical people too stupid to read any more? They must be from the proliferation of videos on technical web site (where most videos show random motion of heads talking anyway and show nothing other than the same examples they have in textual form, so it's better, right).
That is all.