  In the Internet, ubiquitous presence of redundant, unedited, raw videos has
made video summarization an important problem. Traditional methods of video
summarization employ a heuristic set of hand-crafted features, which in many
cases fail to capture subtle abstraction of a scene. This paper presents a deep
learning method that maps the context of a video to the importance of a scene
similar to that is perceived by humans. In particular, a convolutional neural
network (CNN)-based architecture is proposed to mimic the frame-level shot
importance for user-oriented video summarization. The weights and biases of the
CNN are trained extensively through off-line processing, so that it can provide
the importance of a frame of an unseen video almost instantaneously.
Experiments on estimating the shot importance is carried out using the publicly
available database TVSum50. It is shown that the performance of the proposed
network is substantially better than that of commonly referred feature-based
methods for estimating the shot importance in terms of mean absolute error,
absolute error variance, and relative F-measure.
