Paper Info
Title
Automatic generation of video narratives from shared UGC
Abstract
This paper introduces an evaluated approach to the automatic generation of video narratives from user generated content gathered in a shared repository. In the context of social events, end-users record video material with their personal cameras and upload the content to a common repository. Video narrative techniques, implemented using Narrative Structure Language (NSL) and ShapeShifting Media, are employed to automatically generate movies recounting the event. Such movies are personalized according to the preferences expressed by each individual end-user, for each individual viewing. This paper describes our prototype narrative system, MyVideos, deployed as a web application, and reports on its evaluation for one specific use case: assembling stories of a school concert by parents, relatives and friends. The evaluations carried out through focus groups, interviews and field trials, in the Netherlands and UK, provided validating results and further insights into this approach.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1145/1995966.1996009
HT
Keywords
Field
DocType
individual viewing,shapeshifting media,narrative structure language,prototype narrative system,video narrative,individual end-user,automatic generation,video narrative technique,shared repository,common repository,end-users record video material,smil,video,narrative structure,focus group,use case,user generated content,interactive television
User-generated content,World Wide Web,Computer science,Upload,Narrative structure,Interactive television,Narrative,Digital storytelling,Web application,Interactive storytelling,Multimedia
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
29
1.14
14
Authors
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Vilmos Zsombori115812.25
Michael Frantzis2654.94
Rodrigo Laiola Guimaraes314915.22
Marian Florin Ursu4476.51
Pablo Cesar585789.95
Ian Kegel617717.09
Roland Craigie7382.18
Dick C. A. Bulterman81355172.91