Processing Digitized (S)VHS Archives
Stefanie Müller, Stefan Kahl, Maximilian Eibl · 2015
We propose an adaptive system, which automates the workflow of combining low resolution (S)VHS archive material and today's high resolution footage in one video, to assist professional video editors. During this process, old footage of an aspect ratio of 4:3 needs to be cropped in order to use the Full-HD 16:9 screen space, whilst the overall aesthetics and content of the source video should be preserved. If done manually, this is an extensive and time consuming task. The challenge is to automatically adjust the framing according to the depicted content. Our approach aims at an automated detection of the most interesting regions of the source footage for adaptive cropping based on various visual features of representative key frames.