AI Video Editing: a Survey

Video editing is a high-required job, for it requires skilled artists or workers equipped with plentiful physical strength and multidisciplinary knowledge, such as cinematography, aesthetics. Thus gradually, more and more researches focus on proposing semi-automatical and even fully automatical solutions to reduce workloads. Since those conventional methods are usually designed to follow some simple guidelines, they lack flexibility and capability to learn complex ones. Fortunately, the advances of computer vision and machine learning make up the shortages of traditional approaches and make AI editing feasible. There is no survey to conclude those emerging researches yet. This paper summaries the development history of automatic video editing, and especially the applications of AI in partial and full workflows. We emphasizes video editing and discuss related works from multiple aspects: modality, type of input videos, methology, optimization, dataset, and evaluation metric. Besides, we also summarize the progresses in image editing domain, i.e., style transferring, retargeting, and colorization, and seek for the possibility to transfer those techniques to video domain. Finally, we give a brief conclusion about this survey and explore some open problems.

Student Voices on the Use of International Telecollaboration and Sustainability During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown up many challenges to international cooperation, to the promotion of sustainable development, and indeed, to education. This chapter describes a telecollaborative project between university students in Japan and China. The students planned, wrote, recorded, and produced video podcasts on the theme of sustainable development, which were then exchanged via a password-protected, online, collaborative platform. On completion of the project, students wrote reflective essays, which are used here to gain insights into their impressions of topics such as sustainable development and telecollaboration. Results indicate that students improved their understanding of sustainability in addition to developing video editing and podcasting production skills. They also improved their pronunciation as well as other English skills. Overall, they were proud of their podcasts and enjoyed collaborating online with students from another country.

Playback Robot Programming Framework for Fiber Spraying Processes

Robot-based automation is still not widespread in small and medium-sized enterprises, since programming industrial robots is usually costly and only feasible by experts. This disadvantages can be resolved by using intuitive robot programming approaches like playback programming. At the same time, there are currently not automatized automatized, like fiber spraying. We present a novel approach in programming a robot system for fiber spraying processes, which extends a playback programming framework inspired by video editing concepts. The resulting framework allows the programming of also the periphery devices needed for the fiber spraying process. We evaluated the resulting programming framework to measure the intuitiveness in the use and show that the framework is not only able to program fiber spraying tasks but is also rather intuitive to use for domain experts.

Utilization of Multimedia in Student News Video Projects on Praktik Jurnalistik Media Televisi Course

This article aims to explain the use of multimedia in the form of the kinemaster application in the learning process of making news videos in the Praktik Jurnalistik Media Televisi course. The method used is a descriptive method with a qualitative approach. Data were collected from field findings, participant data, and researcher reflections. Sources of data obtained from direct experience, the results of interviews, observations, and documentation from lecturers who are in charge of the Praktik Jurnalistik Media Televisi course at the Indonesian Language and Literature Education Study Program, STKIP PGRI Sumatera Barat. Based on the findings, the kinemaster application helps students in producing news videos. After the data, news scripts, and voices that have been recorded are complete, they take advantage of this application to combine video, sound and images. This application provides a fairly complete video editing feature and can directly edit it on the spot without having to move to another application. Thus, the use of learning resources in the form of multimedia applications in the Praktik Jurnalistik Media Televisi will increase the effectiveness of learning, so that learning becomes more meaningful for students to get direct experience in the use of technology.

PELATIHAN FOTOGRAFI, VIDEOGRAFI DAN MENULIS BERITA DI MEDIA SOSIAL UNTUK PENYANDANG DISABILITAS DI ANNIKA LINDEN CENTRE

A B S T R A C T English translation. Today's growing digital world also affects the variety of types of work for disabilities. One of the prospective job opportunities for disabled people is freelance work. Freelance work for the disabled is available among others in the world of photography, design and writing such as photographers, news contributors / journalists, graphic design, copywriters, social media admins. These positions certainly require special skills so that disabilities can develop a career in the creative industry sector. If pursued, freelance work can be one of the career alternatives for disability. Many disabled colleagues have an interest in photography but are constrained by physical limitations and the availability of needed devices. Through a series of community service through training in the framework of disability day, want to introduce the world of photography and at the same time utilize the functionality of mobile phones so that it can be maximized by people with disabilities. Photography skills such as editing and other related abilities such as video editing will be useful for disabilities to lead a career into the creative world of photography. The world of photography and journalism are two things that are interrelated, writing becomes a skill mastered by people with disabilities as a writer. The need for journalistic training for disabilities becomes important as a starting point for disability recognizing interests in the field and further building a career in that field. A B S T R A K Dunia digital yang semakin berkembang saat ini turut mempengaruhi variasi jenis pekerjaan bagi disabilitas. Salah satu peluang pekerjaan yang prospektif bagi disabilitas adalah pekerjaan freelance. Pekerjaan freelance bagi disabilitas tersedia antara lain di dunia fotografi, desain dan penulisan contohnya profesi seperti fotografer, kontributor berita/jurnalis, desain grafis, copywriter, admin media sosial. Posisi-posisi tersebut tentunya mensyaratkan keterampilan khusus agar disabilitas dapat mengembangkan karir di sektor industri kreatif tersebut. Apabila ditekuni, pekerjaan freelance dapat menjadi salah satu alternatif karir untuk disabilitas.Banyak rekan disabilitas memiliki minat di dunia fotografi namun terkendala keterbatasan fisik maupun ketersediaan device yang dibutuhkan. Melalui serangkaian pengabdian kepada masyarakat melalui pelatihan dalam rangka hari disabilitas, ingin memperkenalkan dunia fotografi dan sekaligus memanfaatkan fungsionalitas ponsel agar dapat dimaksimalkan oleh penyandang disabilitas. Kemampuan fotografi seperti editing dan kemampuan terkait lainnya seperti video editing akan berguna bagi disabilitas untuk menuju karir ke dunia kreatif fotografi. Dunia fotografi dan jurnalistik adalah dua hal yang saling terkait, penulisan menjadi keahlian yang dikuasai oleh penyandang disabilitas sebagai penulis. Kebutuhan akan adanya pelatihan jurnalistik bagi disabilitas menjadi penting sebagai titik awal disabilitas mengenali minat di bidang tersebut dan untuk selanjutnya dapat membangun karir di bidang tersebut.

Singing and playing music through mobile applications: Smule, a new music experience

Mobile phones and the Internet combined have led to the creation of applications that allow their users to perform music using only their Smartphones. With the Smule applications that we analyze in this paper, people can sing karaoke together with other singers from all over the world, or play a tune with their fingertips tapping on a phone’s screen. Besides providing new entertainment activities, the Smule applications and their multiple options regarding audio and video editing can bring about new musical practices and musical artifacts. Smule users can sing duets remotely, without actually singing on the same time – a virtual collective performance. Singing karaoke becomes a solitary practice where togetherness is contrived but not achieved. Video recordings can be edited and shared on a built-in social network, thus being endorsed with a new function: to create bonds within a social network. Analyzing the discourses of Smule creators and developers, we also show that the applications do not achieve what they are promised to do, namely providing social and authentic practices.

Image Matting: A Comprehensive Survey on Techniques, Comparative Analysis, Applications and Future Scope

In the era of rapid growth of technologies, image matting plays a key role in image and video editing along with image composition. In many significant real-world applications such as film production, it has been widely used for visual effects, virtual zoom, image translation, image editing and video editing. With recent advancements in digital cameras, both professionals and consumers have become increasingly involved in matting techniques to facilitate image editing activities. Image matting plays an important role to estimate alpha matte in the unknown region to distinguish foreground from the background region of an image using an input image and the corresponding trimap of an image which represents a foreground and unknown region. Numerous image matting techniques have been proposed recently to extract high-quality matte from image and video sequences. This paper illustrates a systematic overview of the current image and video matting techniques mostly emphasis on the current and advanced algorithms proposed recently. In general, image matting techniques have been categorized according to their underlying approaches, namely, sampling-based, propagation-based, combination of sampling and propagation-based and deep learning-based algorithms. The traditional image matting algorithms depend primarily on color information to predict alpha matte such as sampling-based, propagation-based or combination of sampling and propagation-based algorithms. However, these techniques mostly use low-level features and suffer from high-level background which tends to produce unwanted artifacts when color is same or semi-transparent in the foreground object. Image matting techniques based on deep learning have recently introduced to address the shortcomings of traditional algorithms. Rather than simply depending on the color information, it uses deep learning mechanism to estimate the alpha matte using an input image and the trimap of an image. A comprehensive survey on recent image matting algorithms and in-depth comparative analysis of these algorithms has been thoroughly discussed in this paper.

VIDEODESIGN PRODUCTION: DEFINITIONS, STAGES AND MAIN COMPONENTS

The purpose of the study is to define the characteristics of the concept of "videodesign production", to analyze the stages of videodesign production and identify their main components. Methodology. The research uses methods of analysis, synthesis, identification, formalization and systematization, which allow us to consider the videodesign production and its stages as hierarchically subordinate integrity. Results. The research of production through the prism of film, video production, cinematographic activity, film production is carried out. The definition of the term "videodesign production" is given. The distinctive characteristics between the terms "video production" and "film production", "videography", "video editing" are revealed. The main stages of videodesign production are established and analyzed, namely: "zero", pre-production, production, post-production, presentation. Their main components are identified. Scientific novelty. The research of videodesign as an independent process of videodesign product production is carried out, the definition of the term "videodesign production", its stages and main components is formulated. The practical significance of the study is due to the expansion and deepening of knowledge about videodesign in terms of its implementation through production. The processed information and materials allowed to determine the leading stages and components of the videodesign production and can be used in further research on videodesign.