Focus-based video loop switching

A system comprising:

• a processing device;
• a presentation device communicatively coupled to the processing device and configured for displaying video content to a user;
• and
• a non-transitory computer-readable medium communicatively coupled to the processing device, wherein the processing device is configured to execute program code stored in the non-transitory computer-readable medium and thereby perform operations comprising:
• determining that a start frame and an end frame of a video portion have a threshold similarity, wherein the video portion is a portion of the video content and is within a current region of interest presented to a user on the presentation device, wherein determining that the start frame and the end frame of a video portion have the threshold similarity comprises:
• (i) computing a distance between a start-frame feature vector generated for the start frame and an end-frame feature vector generated for the end frame, and
• (ii) determining that the distance is within a threshold distance,
• selecting, based on the threshold similarity, the video portion as a loop to be displayed to the user in an updated region of interest in the video content, and
• causing the presentation device to display the video portion as the loop.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having program code that is stored thereon, the program code executable by one or more processing devices for performing operations comprising:

• determining that a start frame and an end frame of a video portion have a threshold similarity, wherein the video portion is a portion of a video content and is within a current region of interest of the video content presented to a user on a presentation device, wherein determining that the start frame and the end frame of a video portion have the threshold similarity comprises:
• computing a distance between a start-frame feature vector generated for the start frame and an end-frame feature vector generated for the end frame, and
• determining that the distance is within a threshold distance;
• selecting, based on the threshold similarity, the video portion as a loop to be displayed to the user in an updated region of interest in the video content;
• and
• causing the presentation device to display the video portion as the loop.