BROWSING AND 3D NAVIGATION OF SPARSE, UNSTRUCTURED DIGITAL VIDEO COLLECTIONS

摘要

Method for exploring, browsing and navigating in three dimensions a sparse, unstructured digital video collection comprising two or more videos and an index of possible visual space and time transition frames ("portals") between pairs of videos. The method comprises the steps of displaying at least a part of a first video; receiving a user input; displaying a visual transition _ such as 3D camera sweep, warp, dissolve _ from the first video to a second video, based on the user input; and displaying at least a part of the second video.