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Video summarization, by selecting the most informative and/or user-relevant parts of original videos to create concise summary videos, has high research value and consumer demand in today's video proliferation era. Multi-modal video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Yaowei Guo , Jiazheng Xing , Xiaojun Hou , Shuo Xin , Juntao Jiang , Demetri Terzopoulos , Chenfanfu Jiang , Yong Liu

When video collections become huge, how to explore both within and across videos efficiently is challenging. Video summarization is one of the ways to tackle this issue. Traditional summarization approaches limit the effectiveness of video…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Jia-Hong Huang , Marcel Worring

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) often struggle to balance visual and textual information when summarizing complex multimodal inputs, such as entire TV show episodes. In this paper, we propose a zero-shot video-to-text summarization approach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Galann Pennec , Zhengyuan Liu , Nicholas Asher , Philippe Muller , Nancy F. Chen

The aim of video summarization is to shorten videos automatically while retaining the key information necessary to convey the overall story. Video summarization methods mainly rely on visual factors, such as visual consecutiveness and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Jia-Hong Huang , Chao-Han Huck Yang , Pin-Yu Chen , Min-Hung Chen , Marcel Worring

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are able to process increasingly longer videos. Yet, important visual information is easily lost throughout the entire context and missed by VLMs. Also, it is important to design tools that enable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Galann Pennec , Zhengyuan Liu , Nicholas Asher , Philippe Muller , Nancy F. Chen

The explosive growth of video data intensified the need for flexible user-controllable summarization tools that operate without training data. Existing methods either rely on domain-specific datasets, limiting generalization, or cannot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Mario Barbara , Alaa Maalouf

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

Multimodal video summarization requires visual features that align semantically with language generation. Traditional approaches rely on CNN features trained for object classification, which represent visual concepts as discrete categories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Maham Nazir , Muhammad Aqeel , Richong Zhang , Francesco Setti

Video summarization techniques have been proven to improve the overall user experience when it comes to accessing and comprehending video content. If the user's preference is known, video summarization can identify significant information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Brian Chen , Xiangyuan Zhao , Yingnan Zhu

The exponential increase in video content poses significant challenges in terms of efficient navigation, search, and retrieval, thus requiring advanced video summarization techniques. Existing video summarization methods, which heavily rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Min Jung Lee , Dayoung Gong , Minsu Cho

This paper addresses automatic summarization and search in visual data comprising of videos, live streams and image collections in a unified manner. In particular, we propose a framework for multi-faceted summarization which extracts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-06 Anurag Sahoo , Vishal Kaushal , Khoshrav Doctor , Suyash Shetty , Rishabh Iyer , Ganesh Ramakrishnan

A generic video summary is an abridged version of a video that conveys the whole story and features the most important scenes. Yet the importance of scenes in a video is often subjective, and users should have the option of customizing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Medhini Narasimhan , Anna Rohrbach , Trevor Darrell

The recent development of Video-based Large Language Models (VideoLLMs), has significantly advanced video summarization by aligning video features and, in some cases, audio features with Large Language Models (LLMs). Each of these VideoLLMs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Kuan-Chen Mu , Zhi-Yi Chin , Wei-Chen Chiu

The proliferation of video content on platforms like YouTube and Vimeo presents significant challenges in efficiently locating relevant information. Automatic video summarization aims to address this by extracting and presenting key content…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Jia-Hong Huang

Multimedia summarization with multimodal output can play an essential role in real-world applications, i.e., automatically generating cover images and titles for news articles or providing introductions to online videos. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Jielin Qiu , Jiacheng Zhu , Mengdi Xu , Franck Dernoncourt , Trung Bui , Zhaowen Wang , Bo Li , Ding Zhao , Hailin Jin

With the exponential growth of user-generated content on video-sharing platforms, the challenge of facilitating efficient searching and browsing of videos has garnered significant attention. To enhance users' ability to swiftly locate and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Wenzhuo Du , Gerun Wang , Guancheng Chen , Hang Zhao , Xin Li , Jian Gao

Multimodal abstractive summarization for videos (MAS) requires generating a concise textual summary to describe the highlights of a video according to multimodal resources, in our case, the video content and its transcript. Inspired by the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Zenan Xu , Xiaojun Meng , Yasheng Wang , Qinliang Su , Zexuan Qiu , Xin Jiang , Qun Liu

Audio and vision are two main modalities in video data. Multimodal learning, especially for audiovisual learning, has drawn considerable attention recently, which can boost the performance of various computer vision tasks. However, in video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Bin Zhao , Maoguo Gong , Xuelong Li

Video summarization aims to select representative frames to retain high-level information, which is usually solved by predicting the segment-wise importance score via a softmax function. However, softmax function suffers in retaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Junyan Wang , Yang Bai , Yang Long , Bingzhang Hu , Zhenhua Chai , Yu Guan , Xiaolin Wei

We introduce ViSMap: Unsupervised Video Summarisation by Meta Prompting, a system to summarise hour long videos with no-supervision. Most existing video understanding models work well on short videos of pre-segmented events, yet they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Jian Hu , Dimitrios Korkinof , Shaogang Gong , Mariano Beguerisse-Diaz