Abstract
The goal of this project is to develop and apply effective computer vision techniques that can automatically detect "what is interesting" in such videos. Here, what is meant by interesting may refer to different notions such as where people look in videos, salient objects, interesting motion patterns or moments in videos. All these topics listed above form the subject matter of the proposed project. It is important to note that each notion of interestingness involves different computational problems that need to be solved. This project, unlike the previous work, will investigate all these interrelated concepts within a unified framework and this will allow us to detect different levels of interestingness in a more accurate way.Although the aforementioned problems are closely related to each other, most of the existing literature treats them separately – as mentioned above. In this project, we bridge this gap by developing various techniques and methodologies for solving each task, which take advantage of simultaneously using additional information from other sources of interestingness.
Sponsors: The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) Career Development Program (Award# 113E497)
