Kathleen Ryall - Cambridge MA, US Qing Li - Blacksburg VA, US Alan W. Esenther - Ashland MA, US
International Classification:
H04N 7/18 G06K 9/00 G06K 9/34
US Classification:
348143, 348135, 382107, 382173
Abstract:
A method summarizes a video acquired of a scene spatially and temporally by specifying a spatial query and a temporal query. Frames of the video are selected according to the spatial query and the temporal query, and then the selected frames are composited into an image that represents spatial and temporal characteristics of the scene.