First thing I pulled from my fishing nets this morning was a nice matome/roundup of computer vision demos on Youtube which included a demo for “BriefCam”. The narration was a bit painful to go through, but the demo itself was impressive. BriefCam indexes, summarizes, and compresses events in video logs from surveillance cameras in a way I can’t quite explain ((maybe that’s why the narration was in staccato)), and most certainly sparked my imagination in terms of the future of computer vision capabilities in augmented reality environments — particularly the possibilities of compressing perception of time.
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009, 12:51 pm | 
AR Futures, Computer Vision, Corporate AR, Demos | 
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December 2, 2009 at 2:08 am
Hi Aya,
We’re very pleased that you came across our Video Synopsis technology and recognize its immense potential. Given the fact that more and more video cameras are being installed every day — and that no one has the time to watch all that footage… until its’ too late — there are practical applications for a technology that can condense time and space. But it is also beautiful to watch, as you can see from this clip we created: Video Synopsis set to music. We’d be happy if you could share it with your readers along with the link to http://www.youtube.com/briefcamvs
http://www.youtube.com/profile#p/a/u/0/HYDSRCXSeBM
Best regards,
Rachel
December 3, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Thanks for the response, Rachel!
How much real-world deployment is there of BriefCam?
I took a look at the other videos you referred too– the version with musical backing is very eerie, and really is quite beautiful. Time lapse video is already mesmerizing, but condensed ‘events’, and isolated events are really so visually active and magical. I will continue to keep an eye out for similar videos for sure.
Aya