Read this behind the scenes article about Project Boswell with Brett Lider and Joseph Smarr who toiled long and hard to deliver an awesome feature.
This article also showcases how sometimes you have to throw away the first few concepts before you get it right. Happy that I had a small part at the beginning of the project and props to the many folks that invested time and effort to get this out the door.
Very interesting - the article describes a design process that's almost the opposite of how I had imagined this came around!
There's a whole load of CV research based on story-telling from photos / video - somehow the idea of G+ stories developing from an observed user need rather than pure academia (as I'd imagined) really wraps this up nicely :-)
Yeah the core stories team had no background in CV, tho we later found some internal google GV tools we could use for scoring photos, recognizing landmarks etc
There is significant existing academic work on generating a "story" from those elements as well using various approaches - e.g. the papers from a search for [Computer Vision video summarization].
Really nice product release btw :-)
Thanks! Yeah he nicely captured both the history of the project and why it turned out to be surprisingly challenging.
Joseph Smarr, Jul 17 2014 on 1500wordmtu.com