Abstract: A method for correlating Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) signals from multiple users watching the same content to identify scenes of interest in such content includes filtering GSR signals from each user by subtracting consecutive GSR signal samples from each other. The user reaction portion and baseline portion of the GSR signals for the users are collectively optimized to recover non-zero user responses for the users. The locations in the content having the non-zero responses for the users are then identified as the scenes of interest in such content for the users.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method (500) and apparatus (1000, 250) for using the biometric responses of a first group of users watching and/or listening to digital multimedia content to generate a summary of the digital multimedia content by randomly selecting segments from the digital multimedia content as a function of segment scores determined from the biometric responses. In another method (600) and apparatus (1000, 250) of the present disclosure, the biometric responses of a second group of users being shown the generated summary of the digital multimedia content can be used to extrapolate the biometric responses of the second group of users to the entire digital multimedia content. Furthermore, yet another method (650) and apparatus (1000, 250) of the present disclosure can use the biometric responses of at least one user in the second group of users to generate recommendations.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method (500) and apparatus (1000, 250) for using the biometric responses of a first group of users watching and/or listening to digital multimedia content to generate a summary of the digital multimedia content by randomly selecting segments from the digital multimedia content as a function of segment scores determined from the biometric responses. In another method (600) and apparatus (1000, 250) of the present disclosure, the biometric responses of a second group of users being shown the generated summary of the digital multimedia content can be used to extrapolate the biometric responses of the second group of users to the entire digital multimedia content. Furthermore, yet another method (650) and apparatus (1000, 250) of the present disclosure can use the biometric responses of at least one user in the second group of users to generate recommendations.