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This paper presents a novel approach for unsupervised video summarization using reinforcement learning (RL), addressing limitations like unstable adversarial training and reliance on heuristic-based reward functions. The method operates on…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Mehryar Abbasi , Hadi Hadizadeh , Parvaneh Saeedi

This paper proposes a novel pretext task to address the self-supervised video representation learning problem. Specifically, given an unlabeled video clip, we compute a series of spatio-temporal statistical summaries, such as the spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Jiangliu Wang , Jianbo Jiao , Linchao Bao , Shengfeng He , Wei Liu , Yun-hui Liu

Video summarization aims to produce a compact representation of a long video by selecting a subset of temporally important segments that best reflect human preferences. This task is inherently difficult due to strong annotation subjectivity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Omer Tariq , Syed Muhammad Raza , Jeongbae Son

Video summarisation can be posed as the task of extracting important parts of a video in order to create an informative summary of what occurred in the video. In this paper we introduce SummaryNet as a supervised learning framework for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Ziyad Jappie , David Torpey , Turgay Celik

Lecture videos are an increasingly important learning resource for higher education. However, the challenge of quickly finding the content of interest in a lecture video is an important limitation of this format. This paper introduces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Mohammad Rajiur Rahman , Jaspal Subhlok , Shishir Shah

We address the problem of video representation learning without human-annotated labels. While previous efforts address the problem by designing novel self-supervised tasks using video data, the learned features are merely on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Jiangliu Wang , Jianbo Jiao , Linchao Bao , Shengfeng He , Yunhui Liu , Wei Liu

Given the explosive growth of online videos, it is becoming increasingly important to relieve the tedious work of browsing and managing the video content of interest. Video summarization aims at providing such a technique by transforming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-14 Zhong Ji , Yaru Ma , Yanwei Pang , Xuelong Li

The remarkable success of deep learning in various domains relies on the availability of large-scale annotated datasets. However, obtaining annotations is expensive and requires great effort, which is especially challenging for videos.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Madeline C. Schiappa , Yogesh S. Rawat , Mubarak Shah

Video summarization methods are usually classified into shot-level or frame-level methods, which are individually used in a general way. This paper investigates the underlying complementarity between the frame-level and shot-level methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Yubo An , Shenghui Zhao , Guoqiang Zhang

This paper proposes an efficient video summarization framework that will give a gist of the entire video in a few key-frames or video skims. Existing video summarization frameworks are based on algorithms that utilize computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Sai Sukruth Bezugam , Swatilekha Majumdar , Chetan Ralekar , Tapan Kumar Gandhi

Most existing video summarisation methods are based on either supervised or unsupervised learning. In this paper, we propose a reinforcement learning-based weakly supervised method that exploits easy-to-obtain, video-level category labels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Kaiyang Zhou , Tao Xiang , Andrea Cavallaro

Video summarization aims to automatically generate a diverse and concise summary which is useful in large-scale video processing. Most of the methods tend to adopt self-attention mechanism across video frames, which fails to model the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Yingchao Pan , Ouhan Huang , Qinghao Ye , Zhongjin Li , Wenjiang Wang , Guodun Li , Yuxing Chen

We present a method for creating video summaries in real-time on commodity hardware. Real-time here refers to the fact that the time required for video summarization is less than the duration of the input video. First, low-level features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Wesley Taylor , Faisal Z. Qureshi

We propose a scalable approach to learn video-based question answering (QA): answer a "free-form natural language question" about a video content. Our approach automatically harvests a large number of videos and descriptions freely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Kuo-Hao Zeng , Tseng-Hung Chen , Ching-Yao Chuang , Yuan-Hong Liao , Juan Carlos Niebles , Min Sun

This paper proposes a practical multimodal video summarization task setting and a dataset to train and evaluate the task. The target task involves summarizing a given video into a predefined number of keyframe-caption pairs and displaying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Keito Kudo , Haruki Nagasawa , Jun Suzuki , Nobuyuki Shimizu

Video summarization helps turn long videos into clear, concise representations that are easier to review, document, and analyze, especially in high-stakes domains like surgical training. Prior work has progressed from using basic visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Shreya Rajpal , Michal Golovanevsky , Carsten Eickhoff

A comparative study of various techniques which can be used for summarization of Videos i.e. Video to Video conversion is presented along with respective architecture, results, strengths and shortcomings. In all approaches, a lengthy video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Ravi Raj , Varad Bhatnagar , Aman Kumar Singh , Sneha Mane , Nilima Walde

Long-form video content constitutes a significant portion of internet traffic, making automated video summarization an essential research problem. However, existing video summarization datasets are notably limited in their size,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Dawit Mureja Argaw , Seunghyun Yoon , Fabian Caba Heilbron , Hanieh Deilamsalehy , Trung Bui , Zhaowen Wang , Franck Dernoncourt , Joon Son Chung

Video summarization aims to create short, accurate, and cohesive summaries of longer videos. Despite the existence of various video summarization datasets, a notable limitation is their limited amount of source videos, which hampers the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Hang Hua , Yolo Yunlong Tang , Chenliang Xu , Jiebo Luo

We present an approach for weakly supervised learning of human actions from video transcriptions. Our system is based on the idea that, given a sequence of input data and a transcript, i.e. a list of the order the actions occur in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Hilde Kuehne , Alexander Richard , Juergen Gall