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Y-Vid

Y-Vid is an application specially designed to perform automatic video summarization. It provides as output video summaries of long feature films of various genres, comedies, detectives, war films, etc. A video summary represents the content of the film so that the spectators don't need to see the whole film thus saving much time. It will take 56 minutes to watch "Gone with the Wind" instead of four hours, and 20 minutes to watch "Ruthless People", for example.

The generalized algorithm underlying the application's functioning includes the following steps.

- Convert the film into text.

- Summarize the using traditional summarization techniques, for example symmetric summarization (see [32] in the Publications section).

- Extract the most important information from the text and map it on film episodes.

- Extract the corresponding film episodes and merge them into video summary.

The resulting video summaries are usually 4 times shorter than the original film.

See sample video summaries at https://vk.com/id714501894

The application is being under development. Financial support is needed. Contact V.A. Yatsko at iatskota@gmail.com