Video interface for spatiotemporal interactions based on multi-dimensional video computing

Because digital video is becoming increasingly important for the networked multimedia society, the audio-visual access environment should allow us to do more than just passively watch. We propose a new video user interface concept made possible by multi-dimensional video computing. Multidimensional video computing offers a framework for analyzing a video, creating new structures, and restyling and visualizing the video according to the user´s demands. The video interface visualizes video content and context structure comprehensibly to allow us to access the spatiotemporal information in videos intuitively. In this paper, we introduce our research activities toward a video interface based on the information extracted from the video. New video interfaces called VideoBrowser, PanoramaVideo, and VideoJigsaw are described