Automated video editing will very soon be ‘good

May 30, 2017, 12:54 PM

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A team of Stanford researchers have published a paper on automatic editing of dialogue scenes. Their system may not automatically edit well, but it can now create edits that the majority of people will see as ‘good enough.’ This means editors have new competition. As well as being technically proficient, and be able to handle all sorts of political and psychological situations, they will have baseline edits to improve on. Computational Video Editing for Dialogue-Driven Scenes describes...