University Develops Video Algorithm to Get to the ‘Good Stuff’
Everyone wants to get to the good stuff, right? Carnegie Mellon University (found in Adult DVD Empire’s own stomping grounds of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) has developed a video algorithm that skips past the slow parts of content and takes your right to the most exciting action. While not expressly designed for use during porn viewing, it’s not a far jump to imagine how it could be applied to adult movies, as pointed out by AVN and others in recent news articles.
“Called LiveLight, this method constantly evaluates action in the video, looking for visual novelty and ignoring repetitive or eventless sequences, to create a summary that enables a viewer to get the gist of what happened. What it produces is a miniature video trailer. Although not yet comparable to a professionally edited video, it can help people quickly review a long video of an event, a security camera feed, or video from a police cruiser’s windshield camera,” noted the university’s team in a press release.
Event, camera feed, windshield camera . . . or 16-hour compilation of hardcore action? Probably not what Carnegie Mellon had in mind, but there’s potential!
