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Personalized video summarization by highest quality frames
In this work, a user-centered approach has been the basis for generation of the personalized video summaries. Primarily, the video experts score and annotate the video frames during the enrichment phase. Afterwards, the frames scores for different video segments will be updated based on the captured end-users (different with video experts) priorities towards existing video scenes. Eventually, based on the pre-defined skimming time, the highest scored video frames will be extracted to be included into the personalized video summaries. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of our proposed model, we have compared the video summaries generated by our system against the results from 4 other summarization tools using different modalities
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Hierarchical video summarisation in reference frame subspace
In this paper, a hierarchical video structure summarization approach using Laplacian Eigenmap is proposed, where a small set of reference frames is selected from the video sequence to form a reference subspace to measure the dissimilarity between two arbitrary frames. In the proposed summarization scheme, the shot-level key frames are first detected from the continuity of inter-frame dissimilarity, and the sub-shot level and scene level representative frames are then summarized by using k-mean clustering. The experiment is carried on both test videos and movies, and the results show that in comparison with a similar approach using latent semantic analysis, the proposed approach using Laplacian Eigenmap can achieve a better recall rate in keyframe detection, and gives an efficient hierarchical summarization at sub shot, shot and scene levels subsequently
Self-powered microfluidic chips for multiplexed protein assays from whole blood
We report herein on a self-powered, self-contained microfluidic-based chip designed to separate plasma from whole blood, and then execute an assay of a multiplexed panel of plasma biomarker proteins. The power source is based upon a chemical reaction that is catalytically triggered by the push of a button on the chip. We demonstrate assays of a dozen blood-based protein biomarkers using this automated, self-contained device. This platform can potentially permit high throughput, accurate, multiplexed blood diagnostic measurements in remote locations and by minimally trained individuals
Topology dictionary with Markov model for 3D video content-based skimming and description
This paper presents a novel approach to skim and de-scribe 3D videos. 3D video is an imaging technology which consists in a stream of 3D models in motion captured by a synchronized set of video cameras. Each frame is composed of one or several 3D models, and therefore the acquisition of long sequences at video rate requires massive storage de-vices. In order to reduce the storage cost while keeping rele-vant information, we propose to encode 3D video sequences using a topology-based shape descriptor dictionary. This dictionary is either generated from a set of extracted pat-terns or learned from training input sequences with seman-tic annotations. It relies on an unsupervised 3D shape-based clustering of the dataset by Reeb graphs, and features a Markov network to characterize topological changes. The approach allows content-based compression and skimming with accurate recovery of sequences and can handle com-plex topological changes. Redundancies are detected and skipped based on a probabilistic discrimination process. Semantic description of video sequences is then automat-ically performed. In addition, forthcoming frame encoding is achieved using a multiresolution matching scheme and allows action recognition in 3D. Our experiments were per-formed on complex 3D video sequences. We demonstrate the robustness and accuracy of the 3D video skimming with dramatic low bitrate coding and high compression ratio. 1
Unsupervised video summarization framework using keyframe extraction and video skimming
Video is one of the robust sources of information and the consumption of
online and offline videos has reached an unprecedented level in the last few
years. A fundamental challenge of extracting information from videos is a
viewer has to go through the complete video to understand the context, as
opposed to an image where the viewer can extract information from a single
frame. Apart from context understanding, it almost impossible to create a
universal summarized video for everyone, as everyone has their own bias of
keyframe, e.g; In a soccer game, a coach person might consider those frames
which consist of information on player placement, techniques, etc; however, a
person with less knowledge about a soccer game, will focus more on frames which
consist of goals and score-board. Therefore, if we were to tackle problem video
summarization through a supervised learning path, it will require extensive
personalized labeling of data. In this paper, we attempt to solve video
summarization through unsupervised learning by employing traditional
vision-based algorithmic methodologies for accurate feature extraction from
video frames. We have also proposed a deep learning-based feature extraction
followed by multiple clustering methods to find an effective way of summarizing
a video by interesting key-frame extraction. We have compared the performance
of these approaches on the SumMe dataset and showcased that using deep
learning-based feature extraction has been proven to perform better in case of
dynamic viewpoint videos.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures. Technical Repor
How to find real-world applications for compressive sensing
The potential of compressive sensing (CS) has spurred great interest in the
research community and is a fast growing area of research. However, research
translating CS theory into practical hardware and demonstrating clear and
significant benefits with this hardware over current, conventional imaging
techniques has been limited. This article helps researchers to find those niche
applications where the CS approach provides substantial gain over conventional
approaches by articulating lessons learned in finding one such application; sea
skimming missile detection. As a proof of concept, it is demonstrated that a
simplified CS missile detection architecture and algorithm provides comparable
results to the conventional imaging approach but using a smaller FPA. The
primary message is that all of the excitement surrounding CS is necessary and
appropriate for encouraging our creativity but we all must also take off our
"rose colored glasses" and critically judge our ideas, methods and results
relative to conventional imaging approaches.Comment: 10 page
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