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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2006
Filed:
Nov. 01, 2002
Xian-sheng Hua, Beijing, CN;
Lie LU, Beijing, CN;
Yu-fei MA, Beijing, CN;
Mingjing LI, Beijing, CN;
Hong-jiang Zhang, Beijing, CN;
Xian-Sheng Hua, Beijing, CN;
Lie Lu, Beijing, CN;
Yu-Fei Ma, Beijing, CN;
Mingjing Li, Beijing, CN;
Hong-Jiang Zhang, Beijing, CN;
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods to automatically edit a video to generate a video summary are described. In one aspect, sub-shots are extracted from the video. Importance measures are calculated for at least a portion of the extracted sub-shots. Respective relative distributions for sub-shots having relatively higher importance measures as compared to importance measures of other sub-shots are determined. Based on the determined relative distributions, sub-shots that do not exhibit a uniform distribution with respect to other sub-shots in the particular ones are dropped. The remaining sub-shots are connected with respective transitions to generate the video summary.