Looking for a specific action in a video? This AI-based method can find it for you

Published on May 31, 2024

A phone plays an abstract video. A neural network surrounds the phone and points to the video’s timeline.

The internet is awash in instructional videos that can teach curious viewers everything from cooking the perfect pancake to performing a life-saving Heimlich manoeuvre. However, pinpointing when and where a particular action happens in a long video can be tedious. To streamline the process, scientists are trying to teach computers to perform this task. Ideally, a user could just describe the action they’re looking for, and an AI model would skip to its location in the video.

 

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