Comprehensible Video Thumbnails

• Published in: Computer graphics forum Vol. 34; no. 2; pp. 167 - 177
• Main Authors: Kim, Jongdae, Gray, Charles, Asente, Paul, Collomosse, John
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.05.2015
• Subjects: Analysis; Automation; Categories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS); Classification; Clips; Clusters; Clutter; Coherence; Digital video; E.3.8 [Imaging & Video]: Video Summarization; Image processing systems; Sampling; State of the art; Studies; Visual

We present the Comprehensible Video Thumbnail; an automatically generated visual précis that summarizes salient objects and their dynamics within a video clip. Salient moving objects are detected within clips using a novel stochastic sampling technique that identifies, clusters and then tracks regio...