Google’s AI converts webpages into videos

Description

Summary

• How open banking is driving huge innovation Researchers at Google say they’ve developing an AI system that can automatically convert webpages into short videos.
• URL2Video, which was presented at the 2020 User Interface Software and Technology Symposium, automatically selects key content from a page and decides the temporal and visual presentation of each asset.
• These presentations come from a set of heuristics identified through a study with designers, and they capture video editing styles including content hierarchy, constraining the amount of information in a shot and its time duration while providing consistent color and style for branding.
• While this current research focuses on the visual presentation, we are developing new techniques that support the audio track and a voiceover in video editing,” Google research scientists Peggy Chi and Irfan Essa wrote in a blog post.
• “