Video interface for spatiotemporal interactions based on multi-dimensional video computing

Because digital video is becoming increasingly important for the networked multimedia society, the audio-visual access environment should allow us to do more than just passively watch. We propose a new video user interface concept made possible by multi-dimensional video computing. Multi-dimensional video computing offers a framework for analyzing a video, creating new structures, and restyling and visualizing the video according to the user's demands. The video interface visualizes video content and context structure comprehensibly to allow us to access the spatiotemporal information in videos intuitively. In this paper, we introduce our research activities toward a video interface based on the information extracted from the video. New video interfaces called Video Browser, Panorama Video, and Video Jigsaw are described.