We have recently observed a convergence of technologies to foster the emergence of
lifelogging as a mainstream activity. Computer storage has become significantly cheaper …

The proliferation of miniaturized electronics has fueled a shift toward wearable sensors and
feedback devices for the mass population. Quantified self and other similar movements …

Video summaries provide condensed and succinct representations of the content of a video
stream through a combination of still images, video segments, graphical representations and …

The introduction of wearable video cameras (eg, GoPro) in the consumer market has
promoted video life-logging, motivating users to generate large amounts of video data. This …

Although events are ubiquitous in multimedia, no common notion of events has emerged.
Events appear in multimedia presentation formats, programming frameworks, and …

Background Over the past decade, the wide availability and small size of different types of
sensors, together with the decrease in pricing, have allowed the acquisition of a substantial …

Video and corresponding metadata is accessed. Events of interest within the video are
identified based on the corresponding metadata, and best scenes are identified based on …

The amount of user-generated multimedia content (UGC) has increased rapidly in recent
years due to the ubiquitous availability of smartphones, digital cameras, and affordable …

Capturing videos anytime and anywhere, and then instantly sharing them online, has
become a very popular activity. However, many outdoor user-generated videos (UGVs) lack …

Video Summarization is a technique to reduce the original raw video into a short video
summary. Video summarization automates the task of acquiring key frames/segments from …