Video segmentation using predictive models trained to provide aesthetic scores

A system comprising:

• a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-executable program instructions for segmenting video;
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• a processing device communicatively coupled to the non-transitory computer-readable medium for executing the computer-executable program instructions, wherein executing the computer-executable program instructions configures the processing device to perform operations comprising:
• receiving a video comprising a plurality of video frames;
• calculating, with a predictive model trained to evaluate quality of an input video frame, a first aesthetic score for a first video frame from the plurality of video frames and a second aesthetic score for a second video frame from the plurality of video frames, wherein the predictive model is trained to predict aesthetic scores for video frames by receiving a plurality of images comprising training la bels indicating aesthetic scores determined by a human;
• determining that the first aesthetic score and the second aesthetic score differ by a quality threshold;
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• creating a video segment by merging a subset of video frames from the plurality of video frames, the subset of video frames including the first video frame and an segment-end frame preceding the second video frame.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer-executable program instructions for segmenting video, wherein when executed by a processing device, the computer-executable program instructions cause the processing device to perform operations comprising:

• a step for receiving a video comprising a plurality of video frames;
• a step for calculating, with a predictive model trained to evaluate quality of an input video frame, a first aesthetic score for a first video frame from the plurality of video frames and a second aesthetic score for a second video frame from the plurality of video frames;
• a step for determining that (i) the first aesthetic score and the second aesthetic score differ by a quality threshold and (ii) a number of frames between the first video frame and the second video frame exceeds a duration threshold;
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• a step for creating a video segment by merging a subset of video frames from the plurality of video frames, the subset of video frames ranging from the first video frame to an segment -end frame preceding the second video frame.