Google finds way to better clue you in about YouTube video content

Members of Google’s Computer Vision Team have blogged about an advance by their group that will make it easier for YouTube users to better figure out what a video is about via the thumbnail image first presented to them upon searching. Previously, the thumbnails were grabbed from the 25%, 50% and 75% marks in the video. But now a new algorithm picks out  more representative images. The researchers point out that plowing through all the submitted YouTube video is a huge challenge: as much as 13 hours of video comes in per hour and of course the content is quite diverse.