Towards Interactive Video Browsing

Almost all video players use interaction features similar to those invented for traditional, sequential VCRs. In our current world where video is intensively used in many areas and in many different ways, existing features are not sufficient anymore. Although video abstraction is a means to ease the handling of videos, it lacks rich interactivity. We propose a video browsing tool that provides more flexibility and interactivity to the end-user. It should enable a user to get knowledge quickly about the content of a video and to easily find relevant parts in a video. We will evaluate our current implementation with user studies performed in a usability-lab.