NTU talk (this Saturday): Non-Chronological Video Editing and Video Synopsis

Speaker: Prof. Shmuel Peleg, School of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Time: 02:20pm, January 10 (Saturday), 2009

Place: Room 101, CSIE building

Title: Non-Chronological Video Editing and Video Synopsis

Abstract:
Powerful effects in video editing can be obtained when relaxing the chronological constraints: activities that occurred in different times can be shown simultaneously and vice versa. The description of non-chronological video editing effects and the simple methods to perform them will start this talk.

The non-chronological approach to video is also powerful in creating video summaries. In particular, a full day recorded by a video surveillance camera can be summarized in a few minutes without loss of any activity. It is estimated that 40 million surveillance cameras are being installed annually. But none of the video they record is ever watched: it is too time consuming. The presented video synopsis approach can provide access to the untapped resource of recorded surveillance cameras.

Short Biography:
Shmuel Peleg received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in 1979 under the guidance of Professor Azriel Rosenfeld. In 1981 he became a faculty member at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where he is still a Professor of Computer Science. Shmuel served as chairman of the Institute of Computer Science at Hebrew University from 1990 to 1993.

Shmuel's research covers pyramid representation, image enhancement, motion analysis, panoramic mosaicing, and video surveillance. He has several patents which provided the technical foundations to four start-up companies. The most recent company, BriefCam Ltd., provides indexing into video surveillance, and uses a technology covered in this presentation.