4 papers
Subtle Motion Blur Detection and Segmentation from Static Image Artworks
Ganesh Samarth, Sibendu Paul, Solale Tabarestani +1
Streaming services serve hundreds of millions of viewers worldwide, where visual assets such as thumbnails, box art, and cover images are critical for engagement. Subtle motion blu…
Automatic Funny Scene Extraction from Long-form Cinematic Videos
Sibendu Paul, Haotian Jiang, Caren Chen
Automatically extracting engaging and high-quality humorous scenes from cinematic titles is pivotal for creating captivating video previews and snackable content, boosting user eng…
From Inpainting to Layer Decomposition: Repurposing Generative Inpainting Models for Image Layer Decomposition
Jingxi Chen, Yixiao Zhang, Xiaoye Qian +4
Images can be viewed as layered compositions, foreground objects over background, with potential occlusions. This layered representation enables independent editing of elements, of…
From Captions to Keyframes: KeyScore for Multimodal Frame Scoring and Video-Language Understanding
Shih-Yao Lin, Sibendu Paul, Caren Chen
Selecting informative keyframes is critical for efficient video understanding, yet existing approaches often rely on heuristics, ignore semantics, or produce redundant frames. We p…