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Summarization of Real-Life Events Based on Community-Contributed Content

Authors:
Manfred Del Fabro
Anita Sobe
Laszlo Böszörmenyi

Keywords: video summarization. event summarization. social media. real-life events. video retrieval. image retrieval. multimedia entertainment.

Abstract:
In this paper, we investigate whether community-contributed multimedia content can be used to make video summaries of social events. We implemented an event summarization algorithm that uses photos from Flickr and videos from YouTube to compose summaries of well-known society events, which took place in the last three years. The comparison with a manually obtained ground truth shows a good coverage of the most important situations of these events. We do not claim to produce the best summaries possible, which may be compared to the work of a human director, but we analyze what can be achieved with community-contributed content by now.

Pages: 119 to 126

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: April 29, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4448

ISBN: 978-1-61208-195-3

Location: Chamonix, France

Dates: from April 29, 2012 to May 4, 2012