Automatic Selection of Web Contents Towards Automatic Authoring of a Video Biography

Ichiro Ide, Yasutomo Kawanishi, Kyoka Kunishiro, Frank Nack, Daisuke Deguchi, Hiroshi Murase

Abstract: In this paper, we propose a method for image selection using Web image search for automatic video biography authoring. In the proposed method, images are selected from the image search results considering their visual contents for inclusion in the video biography. Through evaluation, we confirmed the effectiveness of the proposed image selection method compared to a baseline method which simply selects the top 1 search result.