Webcamaze – amazing webcams.

Helmut Grabner (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

Abstract:

Webcams simply overwrite each image with the next incoming one. This is a pity! With webcamaze we build a system that automatically analyses more than 10.000 webcams all around the world. It summarizes the continuous image streams, spots interesting images and puts them aside for people to enjoy.

An obvious challenge is how to cope with the enormous amount of data generated. This calls for light-weighted methods which run in an online manner.

A second, even more challenging task from the computer vision perspective, is to determine what humans consider as "interesting" and how this might be implemented computationally. In this talk I will show some insights of our approach and discuss recent results and limitations.