Smartphones have undeniably taken over our lives in the past few years and most of us carry one everywhere we go. One of the most-used features on a modern phone is the camera, and it's being used all the time. In many cases, more than one person is taking photos or videos of what is going on and each person gets different angles and maybe a different part of the action. There has not been an easy way to edit it all together, but Disney Research announced the development of an automatic editing tool that takes the different videos from a scene and intelligently combines them.
The tool first analyzes what each camera is seeing and from what angle, and then based on that information is able to extrapolate what is the main subject of the video. For example, if four out of five cameras follow a kid running in the snow, it knows that the kid is the main subject and it will work based on that. Then the tool analyzes the angles of the different videos and will make smart choices about how to cut the videos to make sense to the viewer.
To read more about the research and the tool, go to Disney Research and read their press release.