Research: Auto-selecting good stills from a video

A couple of years ago, Esquire shot a magazine cover using not a still camera but a high-res RED video camera. What was groundbreaking becomes commonplace, and as video capture resolution increases…

via John Nack on Adobe: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2011/10/research-auto-selecting-good-stills-from-a-video.html

Adobe engineers & University of Washington researchers are collaborating on a method of automatically finding the best candid shots in a video clip