Highlights

Abstract

Mobile phones are becoming convergent platforms for sensing, computation, and communication. A variety of human-centric applications are on the rise that take advantage of this convergence in innovative ways. This paper envisions Highlights, a collaborative videorecording system that takes advantage of this convergence. Ideally, when multiple phones in a social gathering run Highlights, the output is a short video-highlights of the occasion, created without human intervention. To achieve this, mobile phones must sense their surroundings and collaboratively detect events that qualify for recording. For each event, the phone with the best view must be activated, eventually resulting in multiple video-clips of different events. When joined together, the outcome can become a useful video-summary of the occasion. This paper reports early work towards this longer term project.