Content-based browsing and editing of unstructured video

The focus of this paper is on building a set of tools that analyze, characterize and prepare footage shots with a camera for unanticipated uses. The idea is to take this ensemble of raw stuff and use it in interesting ways that are not just making a sequence out of them. Some of the possible uses of such unstructured video are: making a time slice of a person or a series of events, selecting a group of shots and making a postcard out of them, making a collage of shots, making a SalientStill^TM storyboard, etc. We employ novel distribution clustering algorithms to enable the browsing of unstructured video. The browser permits navigation of content and extraction of stills, collages and summaries from unstructured video