Computerized system and method for automatically generating high-quality digital content thumbnails from digital video

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium tangibly encoded with computer-executable instructions, that when executed by a computing device, perform a method comprising:

• identifying, via the computing device, a video comprising a plurality of video frames, each frame comprising an image;
• parsing, via the computing device, selected video frames of said plurality, and based on said parsing, identifying content features of each selected frame, the content features corresponding to an aesthetic of content depicted by each frames' image;
• filtering, via the computing device, the video based on the content features, and based on said filtering, identifying a frame set with content features having aesthetic values above a quality threshold, said quality threshold set such that a frame's image content within a type of frame depicts content at a predetermined visual aesthetic value, said content features of the identified frame set having aesthetic values above said quality threshold;
• analyzing, via the computing device, said frame set, and based on said analysis, determining a stillness value of each frame in said frame set;
• extracting, via the computing device performing keyframe extraction, a subset from said frame set based on the determined stillness values, said subset comprising a portion of frames within said frame set that have a stillness value at or below a threshold corresponding to a predetermined motion entry value of frame content, such that frames in said frame set with stillness values above said threshold are discarded;
• and
• generating, via the computing device, a graphics interchange format (GIF) file from said subset.

A computing device comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for tangibly storing thereon program logic for execution by the processor, the program logic comprising:
• logic executed by the processor for identifying, via the computing device, a video comprising a plurality of video frames, each frame comprising an image;
• logic executed by the processor for parsing, via the computing device, selected video frames of said plurality, and based on said parsing, identifying content features of each selected frame, the content features corresponding to an aesthetic of content depicted by each frames' image;
• logic executed by the processor for filtering, via the computing device, the video based on the content features, and based on said filtering, identifying a frame set with content features having aesthetic values above a quality threshold, said quality threshold set such that a frame's image content within a type of frame depicts content at a predetermined visual aesthetic value, said content features of the identified frame set having aesthetic values above said quality threshold;
• logic executed by the processor for analyzing, via the computing device, said frame set, and based on said analysis, determining a stillness value of each frame in said frame set;
• logic executed by the processor for extracting, via the computing device performing keyframe extraction, a subset from said frame set based on the determined stillness values, said subset comprising a portion of frames within said frame set that have a stillness value at or below a threshold corresponding to a predetermined motion entry value of frame content, such that frames in said frame set with stillness values above said threshold are discarded;
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• logic executed by the processor for generating, via the computing device, a graphics interchange format (GIF) file from said subset.