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Rainer Lienhart and Silvia Pfeiffer and Wolfgang Effelsberg “Video Abstracting”, Communications of the ACM 40, 12, December 1997 pp. 54-62.

Abstract

This article discusses the usefulness of video abstracts as a sequence of video clips, similar to video trailers, and introduces algorithms to automatically create video abstracts from existing videos.

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Video abstracting

Rainer Lienhart, Silvia Pfeiffer, Wolfgang Effelsberg
Communications of the ACM, 1997