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Blake Mallory

Research Assistant

As a researcher, I conducted research on automatic video summarization through the use of Transformer models.

Video summarization diagram

What I Did

I worked as a research assistant from June 2020 to July 2021

In this role I conducted research on using Transformer models to score the importance of different videos and create summaries of those videos from those scores.

During this research I explored different Transformer model architectures, different input features, different ways of combine those features and more. Through this work I learned a lot about how the attention mechanism in deep learning works, Transformers work, and a variety of image and video processing techniques.

Video summarization diagram

My work here allowed me to expand to other areas where Transformers are used, specifically allowed me to transition over to NLP work.

Tools Used

Python
PyTorch
Plotly
Matplotlib
OpenCV
Git
Numpy
H5Py
Linux