The New Role of Humans in the Future Internet

Personalization of browsing and searching: given a video that is of interest for a user, browsing involves being able to quickly assess the most interesting (relevant, typical or unusual) frames/scenes in the video in order to decide whether it is worth watching in its entirety (or which portions are worth viewing). Users should be allowed to select at view-time basic parameters such as storyboard length and waiting time. However more advanced summarization criteria need to be supported. For example users must be allowed to specify the dynamic (motion-flow) content they are interested in (eg a moving car is different from a parked one). Further, the underlying similarity metric used for selecting the representative frames should be biased using implicit or explicit user requirements.