AVICA — Automated Video Content Creation Platform

Originally published on LinkedIn.

Idea and business case

Video content creation becomes more and more popular in many different individual and business scenarios, boosted by the growing trend of video-podcasting. To some extent it is stimulated by the appearance of many new virtual content-rich platforms (games, esport tournaments, shows, events, simulations etc.) and the fact that they could be a source of attractive video content to be shared with passive audiences on social media platforms such as YouTube, Twitch etc.

Market offers video content generation and processing solutions 2 major domains:

Professional broadcasting - high-quality and equally high-costs solutions and platformsIndividual video podcasting - relatively low cost but time consuming individual efforts which require a certain level of technical skills.

The idea is that there are individual and business consumer groups in many different domains such as virtual and hybrid events, Esports tournaments, entertainment (e.g. shows, music, theatre etc.), computer and VR gaming, location-based entertainment experiences, training and simulation etc. which require:

Affordable (low license and operational costs)Easy to use (full automation)Low technical threshold (no specific training or technical skills requirements)

solutions to create and publish / broadcast their video content on social media video platforms.

So how can one make the video content creation automatic?

Tech

Idea of video content creation automation is not new and was explored earlier both in the academic world, by broadcasting companies and by developers of related software and hardware platforms. Dealing with real videos you always stumble upon the problem that video editing automation is only possible if you somehow know the context of the scene. Therefore manual annotation was used and some ideas about using ML techniques were brought up, but the former do not assume fully automatic mode and the latter are hardly possible for arbitrary videos when specific training of neural network is not possible.

But the growth of virtual platforms and their importance for people and in business opens natural opportunity to implement automation due to the fact that virtual platforms can provide native annotation describing what is going on inside the virtual world both in off-line and in real-time modes which could be used as a basis for automated video content generation from these platforms. Obviously it is not enough to have only events describing changing scenes, there should be “automated video director” logic provided by the platform which does the video content generation automation. We call it “storytelling templates” in our solution (see the reference below).

Storytelling templates and events markup logic works both in off-line video composition mode as well as in real-time video streaming. In the former case, it provides the capability to create meaningful short video summaries highlighting the most important and interesting parts from original videos. In the latter - does fully automatic real-time streams management to create consistent output video stream with most interesting content.

Our solution AVICA can work with multiple virtual and real cameras providing they are all synced with events stream from the virtual platform. It can not only mix original videos but add additional video, graphics and text layers such as custom videos, advertising, active content, user graphics (e.g. logos) and text annotations and specific objects such as players data, avatars, scoreboards, etc.

The resulting video content can be used for your PR, product awareness, user engagement, up-sale, advertising and individual podcasting purposes.

Communities and partnership

We offer partnership with the following individual and business owners of virtual content and platforms:

Computer game developersVR game developersMultiplayer computer and VR game platformsEsports platformsLBE VR platformsSocial VR platformsVirtual conferencing and meeting systemsVirtual events platformsVirtual shows (music, theatre, etc.)Virtual training and simulation platformsVirtual educational platformsIn general all “Metaverse” platforms.

You can find information about our solution AVICA here.

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