{"id":17228,"date":"2011-10-24T08:25:19","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T15:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=5230"},"modified":"2011-10-24T08:25:19","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T15:25:19","slug":"research-auto-selecting-good-stills-from-a-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/24\/research-auto-selecting-good-stills-from-a-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Research: Auto-selecting good stills from a video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of years ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/the-side\/video\/megan-fox-images-0609\">Esquire shot a magazine cover<\/a> using not a still camera but a high-res RED video camera. What was groundbreaking becomes commonplace, and as video capture resolution increases, so does the possibility of using stills as photos.<br \/>\nTo make that easier, Adobe engineers &#038; University of Washington researchers are collaborating on <a href=\"http:\/\/grail.cs.washington.edu\/projects\/candid_video_portraits\/\">a method of automatically finding the best candid shots<\/a> in a video clip. Check it out:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/30502325?title=0&amp;byline=0\" width=\"425\" height=\"239\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nVery cool&#8211;though I continue to suspect there&#8217;s a market for auto-selecting the most ridiculous, unflattering images of one&#8217;s friends&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of years ago, Esquire shot a magazine cover using not a still camera but a high-res RED video camera. What was groundbreaking becomes commonplace, and as video capture resolution increases, so does the possibility of using stills as photos. To make that easier, Adobe engineers &#038; University of Washington researchers are collaborating on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17228"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}