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."

I do this using host files ... apk

[Anonymous Coward]

This system is stupid when you can accomplish the same thing by modifying your host file ... apk

now with hardware acceleration

[Trepidity]

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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[TeknoHog]

Perchance the future advancements in AI will enable the distillation of audiovisual gobbledygook back into text.

Does it work on movies?

[myoparo]

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!

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[TeknoHog]

Yeah, because action is synonym for good. In case you feel like scoffing at the altitude of my eyebrows, consider the penis joke in the latest Silicon Valley episode -- all talk, a few diagrams, and hardly (pun intended) any action. (I almost used "epic" there, but even with this high point (pun intended) in recent TV topography, I doubt there will be Vikings writing sagas about it in the next 1000 years.)

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[Dahamma]

No, action is synonym for porn.

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[fizzer06]

It seems attention spans get shorter all of the time.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Attention spans what?

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[ArcadeMan]

Squirrel!

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[grep -v '.*' *]

It seems attention spans get shorter all of the time.

No, they d

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[smart_ass]

More than movies, Football and Soccer games and who could leave out porn in a discussion of this nature.

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[koreanbabykilla]

If you hate ./ so much, there is soylentnews.org and pipedot.org.....just saying....

Boobies?

[fatquack]

Does it get me to the part with the boobies?

Re:Boobies?

[PPH]

Yes. Here you go [imgur.com]

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[ArcadeMan]

Elephants are bigger in person!

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[smart_ass]

Or this:

http://www.incrediblethings.co... [incrediblethings.com]

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[uCallHimDrJ0NES]

Think about it... A good algorithm should be smart enough to filter out unwanted content such as ads :)

I'm thinking about it. Does it filter out product placement? Does Rocky still buy the chicken?

LOL ....

[gstoddart]

So many rule #34 jokes, so little time.

The Wadsworth Constant

[anomalous3]

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.

Will it work...

[Torp]

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 really don't understand the switch to video...

[frank_adrian314159]

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