Video Production
This lecture overviews Video Production that has many applications in movie and TV productions. It covers the following topics in detail: Pre-Production. Production: Camera mounts / Multicameras, Camera movements and lenses, Shot types, Lighting, Action/set recording (techniques). AI in Video Production. Post-Production: CGI, Visual Effects, Compositing natural and synthetic scenes, Digital manipulation, video edit and format conversion.
Video Description
This lecture overviews that has many applications in broadcasting archives abd video description, search, retrieval and browsing. It covers the following topics in detail: MPEG-7 description Standard: Parts, Descriptors, Audiovisual Description Profile (AVDP). Video analysis / annotation software. EBUCore description Standard. PBCore description Standard. Standards and Usages. YouTube API & CNN Archive Metadata. Media Asset Management Systems (MAMs).
Video Indexing and Retrieval
This lecture overviews Video Indexing and Retrieval that has many applications in video description, search, retrieval and browsing. It covers the following topics in detail: Hierarchical video structure, Shot cut/transition detection, Video Summarization, Audiovisual content description, Video indexing and retrieval.
Video Captioning
This lecture overviews Video Captioning that has many applications in video description, search and retrieval. It covers the following topics in detail: Video captioning definitions and datasets. Evaluation Metrics (SVO, BLEU, ROUGE, CIDER, METEOR, F-SCORE). Video Captioning Methods: Template-based Captioning, Joint Embedding, Encoder-Decoder Mechanisms (Attention Mechanism, Hierarchical Neural Encoder, Paragraph Description, Dense Captioning, Video Captioning by Adversarial LSTMs).
Video Summarization
This lecture overviews Video Summarization that has many applications in video description, search, retrieval and browsing. It covers the following topics in detail: Video Summarization Models: a) Static video summary (storyboard), Video Captioning, Key framing extraction, b) Dynamic video summarization (skimming). Video Summarization Techniques (Video Summarization with Global and Local Features, Scene identification with global features, Keyframe selection with local features. Event-based video summarization. Motion and Color Based video Summarization. Object-Based video summarization. Attention-based video summarization. Clustering-based Video summarization. Selection of shot / shot boundaries-based video summarization. Trajectory-based Video Summarization). Supervised learning for Video Summarization. Unsupervised learning for Video Summarization. Video Summarization with Neural Networks (NN). Video Summarization Applications.
Video Streaming
This lecture overviews Video Streaming that has many applications in videoconferencing, social media and TV webcasting. It covers the following topics in detail: Video File Transfer and Progressive Video Download. Media Streaming Technology: Constant Bit Rate (CBR) encoding, Multiple Bit Rate encoding Variable Bit Rate (VBR) encoding, Average Bit Rate (ABR) encoding. Media Publishing and Communication. Media players. Videoconferencing. Multimedia Streaming Frameworks (Gstreamer). Mobile TV.