A New Way To Browse Videos - Direct Manipulation

PaSSoA · June 23rd, 2008, 08:08 AM

So I came across a cool looking video player that does something called direct manipulation.

Here are some quotes on its site.

Quote:

DimP is a video player prototype that allows to browse video clips by directly manipulating their content.

The way it works is quite simple:

1. DimP automatically extracts object motions from the videos.
2. DimP then allows the user to control video playback by scrubbing these objects on their trajectories.

The video clip itself is not modified, dragging an object constrained to a trajectory is similar to dragging a slider. The slider's thumb will never stray away from its predefined trajectory, yet we all agree it is being directly manipulated.

Whether it is true direct manipulation or not is actually an ill-posed question. On computer screens, where everything is just pixels, you are never physically manipulating objects. Direct manipulation is always an illusion produced by having user's gestures match the resulting motions on the screen as closely as possible. This is further discussed in our paper below.

So what's being manipulated, exactly? Both the video content (e.g., the things you see moving in the video) and the "tape head". When using DimP, the user directly manipulates the video content and indirectly manipulates the tape head. When using the seeker bar, the user directly manipulates the tape head and indirectly manipulates the video content.

A 1-min teaser

+ YouTube Video

A longer video with explanations

+ YouTube Video

What do you guys think? Useful or another cool but useless idea.

Viper007Bond · June 23rd, 2008, 08:11 AM

Clever, but worthless for the majority for the majority of things.

fbc · June 23rd, 2008, 08:14 AM

Cool, but it's not something I'd ever use.

jensked · June 23rd, 2008, 09:47 AM

Useful for pr0n?

Viper007Bond · June 23rd, 2008, 09:48 AM

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Originally Posted by jensked

Useful for pr0n?

Haha, you could drag the guy's dick in and out of the chick's ass. images/smilies/lol.gif

jensked · June 23rd, 2008, 11:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jensked

Useful for pr0n?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Viper007Bond

Haha, you could drag the guy's dick in and out of the chick's ass. images/smilies/lol.gif

Very useful for pr0n!

POWERRR!! · June 23rd, 2008, 04:51 PM

What's so great about that anyway? That's nothing more but a jog fuction, but instead of a dial or slider you drag something in the video backward or forward.

PaSSoA · June 24th, 2008, 07:01 PM

I've downloaded the beta but didn't managed to give a try yet, apparently you can only use it on small video files. There might be some uses to it, but I think most of the time it's just for the "cool" factor only.

phuckingduck · June 26th, 2008, 08:09 PM

I could see this being useful in something like analysis of a slo-mo video, but other than that it's really just a novelty. Intriguing exercise though.

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jensked Joined: Mar 31st, 2005 Last Online: October 10th, 2008 Location: Flanders, Belgium Age: 25 Posts: 3,923 Car: RIP Opel Astra -> 2006 Toyota Corolla Wagon Rep Power: 36	Useful for pr0n? __________________

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POWERRR!! Joined: Dec 18th, 2005 Last Online: October 6th, 2008 Location: New York, NY Posts: 484 Rep Power: 14	What's so great about that anyway? That's nothing more but a jog fuction, but instead of a dial or slider you drag something in the video backward or forward. __________________

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phuckingduck is awesome! Joined: Mar 1st, 2007 Last Online: October 4th, 2008 Location: Seattle, WA, USA Posts: 1,362 Car: '03 Volvo S60 AWD Rep Power: 22	I could see this being useful in something like analysis of a slo-mo video, but other than that it's really just a novelty. Intriguing exercise though. __________________ 14:43 +PhuckingDuck • so you wont eat Josh's meat? 14:43 %SolitudeSeraph • I don't like the taste/texture

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PaSSoA Joined: Oct 12th, 2007 Last Online: Yesterday Posts: 166 Rep Power: 14	I've downloaded the beta but didn't managed to give a try yet, apparently you can only use it on small video files. There might be some uses to it, but I think most of the time it's just for the "cool" factor only.

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