Abstract: A method and system for detecting a request for distress assistance is disclosed. An electronic screen of the system is configured to display visible information that instructs on a human performance of a clandestine gesture that will indicate the request for distress assistance. The method includes carrying out video analytics on video to automatically detect and recognize that the human has communicated the clandestine gesture via an at least one surveillance camera that captured the video. The method also includes determining, based on the communicated clandestine gesture and contextual information, a level of urgency of the request for distress assistance indicated by the clandestine gesture. The method also includes generating an electronic notification or electronic alert, based on the level of urgency, corresponding to an expected assistance action to be taken by a designated assistance person.

Abstract: Techniques for playing a first audio track for a video on a first audio device of a first audience member and simultaneously playing a second audio track that includes different content for the video than the first audio track on a second audio device of a second audience member by a single media player are described.

Abstract: There is provided a moving picture editing system capable of greatly improving the workability and convenience of moving picture editing and performing moving picture editing with a high degree of freedom. The present invention includes an administrator terminal 30 and a moving picture editing server 10.

Abstract: A control apparatus includes a processor that controls a surveillance camera. The processor enables switching between a first surveillance mode in which the surveillance camera is caused to perform imaging to acquire a first captured image and an imaging range is changed according to a given instruction, and a second surveillance mode in which the surveillance camera is caused to perform imaging to acquire a second captured image, a trained model that has been trained through machine learning is used to detect an object that appears in the second captured image, and the imaging range is changed according to a detection result, and outputs the first captured image acquired in the first surveillance mode as a teacher image for the machine learning.

Abstract: Camera arrays including multiple cameras which are spaced at various distances from one another are implemented and used. Multiple camera pairs with very different camera baselines between the cameras allows for reliable depth determinations to be made. Disparity information obtained by comparing images of a closely spaced camera pair are used to limit the search for matching image portions of images of a more distantly spaced camera pair. This allows searching for matching image portions to be constrained in a way that the complexity of searching for matching image portions can scale at a lower rate than the rate at which the baselines between cameras increases. This allows depth determinations to benefit from the accuracy obtained from using large camera baselines in a manner that is efficient from a processor utilization perspective since comparing image portions can be processor intensive if implemented without the benefit of constraints.

Abstract: A vehicle photographic booth is provided that accommodates cameras with lenses with focal lengths that avoid wide angle distortion that is common in low end car photography. The photographic booth has an ovoid hemispherical dome shape with a camera mounted at the apex of the ovoid portion so as to accommodate longer focal length lenses. The overall dimension of the ovoid section of the dome for placement of a camera is determined by the available floor space of a user. The use of an enclosed ovoid hemispherical dome shape that rotates with respect to a stationary stage, or in the alternative a fixed enclosed ovoid hemispherical dome with a rotating stage allows for much less light to be needed as compared to a full open volume. An ovoid shape also provides a smaller fixed footprint than a full structure for an equal camera distance from a subject.

Abstract: A video having a wide field of view (e.g., spherical field of view) may be presented within a graphical user interface. The graphical user interface may include multiple punchouts of the wide field of view, with the number of punchouts set based on user interaction with a punchout-number element of the graphical user interface. Individual punchouts may be used as output of a virtual camera to provide views of differential spatial parts of the video. Presentation of different spatial parts of the video within different punchouts may be automatically synchronized based on the different spatial parts originating from a single video.

Abstract: An automated log scaling system and method. One or more imagers may capture depictions of respective first ends and/or second ends of a plurality of logs, and use the captured depictions to scale the plurality of logs. A diameter value for each end of the log may be determined using the captured depictions. Relative location values for each captured end may be determined and used to form a length of each log. Information captured in the images is used to identify the type of tree or species of tree for each log. At least one of the diameter values may be multiplied by the determined log length, and the resulting product value may be compared to values in a log scaling chart to determine a value for the log. The value of multiple logs may be used to form a load of logs for distribution.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method of video surveillance comprising the steps of: querying a knowledge graph representing a plurality of video cameras as ontology entities connected by edges, in order to identify, based on a first video camera providing a first video stream that can be fed to at least one first application program to obtain first analytics data, one or more second video cameras which can each provide a respective second video stream; and identifying, based on the first application program and/or based on the first analytics data, at least one second application program that can be fed with at least one second video stream to obtain second analytics data.

Abstract: User-generated content is received from multiple user devices, including first content recorded by a first user device during a first time interval and second content recorded by a second user device during a second time interval. If the second time interval immediately precedes, or immediately follows, the first time interval, then at least a portion of the second content may be appended to the first content. For example, if a user ends recording of the first content before an interesting event occurs, then a portion of the second content may be appended to the first content so that the user has a recording including the missed event. The second content may be selected based on a location, and/or a field of view of the second user device during the second time interval being similar to that of the first user device during the first time interval.

Abstract: Systems and methods for automatically populating a post-operative report of a surgical procedure are disclosed. A system may include at least one processor configured to implement a method including receiving an identifier of a patient, an identifier of a healthcare provider, and surgical footage of a surgical procedure performed on the patient. The method may include analyzing frames of the surgical footage to identify phases of the surgical procedure based on interactions between medical instruments and biological structures and, based on the interactions, associate a name with each phase. The method may include determining a beginning of each phase and associating a time marker with the beginning of each phase. The method may include populating a post-operative report with the patient identifier, the names of the phases, and time markers associated with the phases in a manner that enables the health care provider to alter the post-operative report.

Abstract: A method includes receiving, by a processor, from a first server, a first plurality of frames associated with a media item. Each frame of the first plurality of frames is associated with a respective timestamp of a first plurality of timestamps generated by the first server. A second plurality of frames associated with the media item are received from a second server. The second plurality of frames are each associated with a respective timestamp of a second plurality of timestamps generated by the second server. An offset value between a first timestamp of the first plurality of timestamps and a second timestamp of the second plurality of timestamps is determined. A modified plurality of frames is generated by modifying, based on the offset value, each timestamp of a subset of the second plurality of timestamps. The modified plurality of frames is sent to the client device.

Abstract: One technique for operating a drone device to capture an image based on capture instructions comprises receiving capture instructions determined from social graph information from a social network, the capture instructions identifying one or more subject faces corresponding to one or more social network users identified in the social graph information; and capturing an image including the one or more subject faces based on the capture instructions. Another technique for operating a drone device to capture an image based on capture instructions comprises receiving capture instructions determined from social graph information from a social network, the capture instructions identifying geographic locations of one or more social network users identified in the social graph information; and capturing an image at a geographic location of the geographic locations included in the capture instructions.

Abstract: A camera system for a vehicle includes a camera having a housing defining an interior space, a memory device in the interior space, a processor in the interior space coupled to the memory device, a lens exposed on an exterior of the housing, an image sensor in the interior space coupled to the memory device, and a sensor coupled to the processor. The camera system also includes an attachment mechanism configured to secure the camera system to the vehicle. The camera is configured to move between a closed position and an open position. The memory device includes instructions configured to cause the processor to determine the camera is in the open position in response to an output signal by the sensor, and to cause the camera system to record the video captured by the image sensor in response to the camera being in the open position.

Abstract: A method and system for carrying out iterative appearance searching is disclosed. The method includes employing at least one first reference image to carry out a first instance, computer vision-driven appearance search of first video data captured across a respective first set of a plurality of first security cameras. The method also includes obtaining a second reference image, having a respective relevance confidence that satisfies a confidence threshold condition, from the portion of the first video data. The method also includes employing the second reference image for a second instance, computer vision-driven appearance search of second video data captured across a respective second set of a plurality of second security cameras.

Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product are provided for training a neural network for finding queried videos. Two pairs of video clips and associated text are obtained from a first dataset and a second dataset. The first dataset is used to train two video encoders by providing the video clips to the encoders as input and providing the outputs to a cosine similarity calculator. The second dataset is used to train a multi-mentor paradigm with two mentors. A first mentor and a second mentor are each provided the pair of textual data inputs. The first mentor provides a similarity value comparison, and the second mentor provides a word mover distance. Using the output from the multi-mentor paradigm and the encoders, a contrastive loss is calculated and used to provide contrastive learning of video features by differentiating similarity and dissimilarity of the video clips.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: a first display panel unit for executing display toward a user side; a second display panel unit for executing display toward a subject side; an imaging processing unit for subjecting incident light from the subject side to photoelectric conversion to obtain a captured image signal; a recording processing unit for executing a recording process to a recording medium regarding the captured image signal obtained at the imaging processing unit; and a control unit for controlling the display states of the first display panel unit and the second display panel unit for each of a plurality of various types of operation periods changing along with the operation of the imaging processing unit or the recording processing unit, and executing display control wherein the first display panel unit and the second display panel unit can have different display content during at least a single operation period.

Abstract: A vehicular dual mode illumination module includes mounting structure configured for mounting at a vehicle, a first light emitting diode (LED) operable to emit visible white light when electrically powered, and a second near-infrared (near-IR) LED operable to emit non-visible near-IR light when electrically powered. When the vehicle is parked and the first LED is electrically powered, the first LED emits visible white light to provide visible illumination at a first region exterior the vehicle. Electrical powering of the first LED is locked-out during movement of the vehicle. When the second near-IR LED is electrically powered, the second near-IR LED emits non-visible near-IR light to illuminate a second region exterior the vehicle and to provide non-visible illumination for a camera viewing the second region. Electrical powering of the second near-IR LED is not locked-out during movement of the vehicle.

Abstract: A mechanism is described for facilitating cinematic space-time view synthesis in computing environments according to one embodiment. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes capturing, by one or more cameras, multiple images at multiple positions or multiple points in times, where the multiple images represent multiple views of an object or a scene, where the one or more cameras are coupled to one or more processors of a computing device. The method further includes synthesizing, by a neural network, the multiple images into a single image including a middle image of the multiple images and representing an intermediary view of the multiple views.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for editing and collaborating with digital videos through interactions with video transcripts. For example, the disclosed systems can provide a user interface for interacting with a video transcript associated with a digital video. Based on interacting with the video transcript, the disclosed systems can perform editing operations and/or collaborating operations in relation to the digital video. For instance, the disclosed systems can edit a digital video at a video portion corresponding to transcript location where a user interaction occurs within a video transcript.