Patent ID: 8000533

Claim:
A method at least partially implemented by a computing device, the method comprising: identifying one or more arbitrary space-time volumes representing one or more informative video portions of at least one input video data sequence; segmenting the one or more informative video portions to generate one or more volumetric saliency blobs, each of the one or more volumetric saliency blobs comprising a high saliency video portion; dilating the one or more volumetric saliency blobs using respective one or more mask volumes to simulate spread of respective high saliency video portions of the one or more volumetric saliency blobs on respective surrounding portions of the one or more volumetric saliency blobs to form one or more volumetric saliency layers; and generating a video summary montage of the at least one input video data sequence based on the one or more volumetric saliency layers.