Hello!
We’re Team BD, Seam Carving Through Time.
Our project offer an alternative to the prevalent, uniform frame cutting/adding algorithm to change video playback speed. We aim to apply the 3D seam carving algorithm to videos in the time dimension, which would preserve the most salient features of the video (moments of high movement or action) and remove the featureless moments, and thus achieve a shortened/lengthened version of the video without distorting important portions. As the algorithm is more computationally complex than uniform frame cutting, we delegate partially the computation to an FPGA for the algorithm to run at optimal speed.