Our paper was listed as the “Excellent Paper” by Google Research for 2012 We honor the influential papers authored or co-authored by Googlers covering all of 2012 — covering roughly 6% of our total publications. It’s tough choosing, so we may have left out some important papers. So, do see the publications list to review the […]
Presentation at Google I/0 2013 by Matthias Grundmann, John Gregg, and Vivek Kwatra on our Video Stabilizer on YouTube Video stabilization is a key component of YouTubes video enhancement tools and youtube.com/editor. All YouTube uploads are automatically detected for shakiness and suggested stabilization if needed. This talk will describe the technical details behind our fully […]
Citation Abstract We propose to learn pixel-level segmentations of objects from weakly labeled (tagged) internet videos. Especially, given a large collection of raw YouTube content, along with potentially noisy tags, our goal is to automatically generate spatiotemporal masks for each object, such as dog”, without employing any pre-trained object detectors. We formulate this problem as […]
Here is an excerpt from a Google Research Blog on our Video Stabilization on YouTube. Now even more improved. One thing we have been working on within Research at Google is developing methods for making casual videos look more professional, thereby providing users with a better viewing experience. Professional videos have several characteristics that differentiate […]
Our following paper was just awarded the Excellent Paper for 2011 in Computer Vision by Google Research. M. Grundmann, V. Kwatra, and I. Essa (2011), “Auto-Directed Video Stabilization with Robust L1 Optimal Camera Paths,” in IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2011. [PDF] [WEBSITE] [VIDEO] [DEMO] [DOI] [BIBTEX] @InProceedings{ 2011-Grundmann-AVSWROCP, author = […]
Our work, as described in the following paper, now showcased in youtube. YouTube effects: Shake it like an Instagram picture via YouTube effects: Shake it like an Instagram picture — Online Video News. YouTube users can now apply a number of Instagram-like effects to their videos, giving them a cartoonish or Lomo-like look with the click of […]
via YouTube Blog: Lights, Camera… EDIT! New Features for the YouTube Video Editor. Lights, Camera… EDIT! New Features for the YouTube Video Editor Nine months ago we launched our cloud-based video editor. It was a simple product built to provide our users with simple editing tools. Although it didn’t have all the features available on paid […]