Videos filmed & edited for television & desktop are typically created & viewed in landscape aspect ratios (16:9 or 4:3). But that’s old-gen, & not fit for today’s smart devices.
With an increasing number of users creating & consuming Content on mobile devices, historical aspect ratios don’t always fit the display being used for viewing. To address this problem, Google has announced AutoFlip, an open source framework for intelligent video reframing.
Google’s AutoFlip automatically crops videos using AI – VentureBeat
Video filmed and edited for TV is typically created and viewed in landscape, but problematically, aspect ratios like 16:9 and 4:3 don’t always fit the display being used for viewing. Fortunately, Google’s on the case. It today detailed AutoFlip, an open source tool for intelligent video reframing. Given a video and a target dimension, it analyzes the video content and develops optimal tracking and cropping strategies, after which it produces an output video with the same duration in the desired aspect ratio.
Link: Google’s AutoFlip automatically crops videos using AI
via venturebeat.com
