To Click or Not To Click: Automatic Selection of Beautiful Thumbnails from Videos

2 code implementations • 6 Sep 2016 • Yale Song, Miriam Redi, Jordi Vallmitjana, Alejandro Jaimes

Our system selects attractive thumbnails by analyzing various visual quality and aesthetic metrics of video frames, and performs a clustering analysis to determine the relevance to video content, thus making the resulting thumbnails more representative of the video.

Multimedia

Humor in Collective Discourse: Unsupervised Funniness Detection in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest

no code implementations • LREC 2016 • Dragomir Radev, Amanda Stent, Joel Tetreault, Aasish Pappu, Aikaterini Iliakopoulou, Agustin Chanfreau, Paloma de Juan, Jordi Vallmitjana, Alejandro Jaimes, Rahul Jha, Bob Mankoff

The New Yorker publishes a weekly captionless cartoon.

TVSum: Summarizing Web Videos Using Titles

no code implementations • CVPR 2015 • Yale Song, Jordi Vallmitjana, Amanda Stent, Alejandro Jaimes

We observe that a video title is often carefully chosen to be maximally descriptive of its main topic, and hence images related to the title can serve as a proxy for important visual concepts of the main topic.

Descriptive Image Retrieval +1