Generating moving thumbnails for videos

1. A method comprising:

determining frame-level quality scores for video frames of a video item;

applying a sliding window to the video frames to identify a plurality of groups of video frames for scoring on a group-level, wherein the sliding window groups the video frames into the plurality of groups of video frames, wherein at least two of the plurality of groups of video frames comprise a same video frame, and wherein the plurality of groups of video frames are scored on the group-level to provide an indication of a quality of a respective group of video frames for inclusion in a moving thumbnail;

determining, by a processing device, a plurality of group-level quality scores for the plurality of groups of video frames of the video item using the frame-level quality scores of the video frames;

selecting one of the plurality of groups of video frames of the video item based on the plurality of group-level quality scores; and

creating the moving thumbnail using the selected group of video frames selected based on the respective group level quality score.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

sampling the video frames of the video item at a fixed sampling rate.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the video frames of the video item are sampled from a beginning portion of the video item.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the frame-level quality scores for the video frames comprises:

generating one or more quality scores for each of the video frames in view of one or more of a plurality of frame-level scorers; and

aggregating the one or more quality scores for each of the video frames to generate the frame-level quality scores for the video frames, wherein the frame-level quality score for a respective one of the video frames is indicative of a quality of the respective video frame of the video item.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein generating one or more quality scores for each of the video frames in view of one or more of a plurality of frame-level scorers comprises:

generating a first quality score for each of the video frames using a thumbnail quality scorer that measures a visual quality of the video frames;

generating a second quality score for each of the video frames using a face scorer that measures a size of a face relative to a size of the video frames; and

generating a third quality score for each of the video frames using a motion scorer that measures motion between two consecutively sampled video frames.

6. The method of claim 4 , wherein aggregating the quality scores for each the video frames comprises summing the quality scores using a linear weighted summation.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein applying the sliding window to the video frames to identify the plurality of groups of video frames for scoring on the group-level further comprises:

applying the sliding window to different positions along a time axis to group the video frames into the plurality of groups of video frames, wherein the video frames are ordered with respect to the time axis, and wherein frame-level quality scores of a particular group of video frames are used to determine a group-level quality score for the particular group of video frames.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein applying the sliding window to the video frames to identify the plurality of groups of video frames for scoring on the group-level further comprises:

applying the sliding window to a first position with respect to a time axis, wherein the sliding window extends for a fixed duration and a first group of the plurality of groups of video frames is within the sliding window at the first position with respect to the time axis; and

applying the sliding window to a second position with respect to the time axis, wherein a second group of the plurality of groups of video frames is within the sliding window at the second position with respect to the time axis; and

wherein determining the plurality of group-level quality scores for the plurality of groups of video frames using the frame-level quality scores of the video frames further comprises:

determining a first group-level quality score of the plurality of group-level quality scores by aggregating frame-level quality scores associated with the first group of video frames; and

determining a second group-level quality score of the plurality of group-level quality scores by aggregating frame-level quality scores associated with the second group of video frames.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the selected group of video frames has a highest group-level quality score among the plurality of group-level quality scores.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the moving thumbnail comprises a subset of the video frames that have timestamps within a range from a start timestamp to an end timestamp, the method further comprising:

modifying the subset of the video frames of the moving thumbnail to cause at least one of a first video frame of the subset of the video frames or a last video frame of the subset of the video frames to be proximate a shot boundary of the video item.

11. The method of claim 1 , further comprising modifying a playback speed of the moving thumbnail in view of motion measured in a subset of the video frames of the moving thumbnail.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein the moving thumbnail is stored in a Graphic Interchange Format (GIF).

13. The method of claim 1 , wherein the moving thumbnail is stored in an H.264 format.

14. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, responsive to execution by a processing device, cause the processing device to perform operations comprising:

determining frame-level quality scores for video frames of a video item;

applying a sliding window to the video frames to identify a plurality of groups of video frames for scoring on a group-level, wherein the sliding window groups the video frames into the plurality of groups of video frames, wherein at least two of the plurality of groups of video frames comprise a same video frame, and wherein the plurality of groups of video frames are scored on the group-level to provide an indication of a quality of a respective group of video frames for inclusion in a moving thumbnail;

determining, by a processing device, a plurality of group-level quality scores for the plurality of groups of video frames of the video item using the frame-level quality scores of the video frames;

selecting one of the plurality of groups of video frames of the video item based on the plurality of group-level quality scores; and

creating the moving thumbnail using the selected group of video frames selected based on the respective group level quality score.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14 , wherein determining the frame-level quality scores for the video frames comprises:

generating one or more quality scores for each of the video frames in view of one or more of a plurality of frame-level scorers; and

aggregating the one or more quality scores for each of the video frames to generate the frame-level quality scores for the video frames, wherein the frame-level quality score for a respective one of the video frames is indicative of a quality of the respective video frame of the video item.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14 , wherein applying the sliding window to the video frames to identify the plurality of groups of video frames for scoring on the group-level further comprises:

applying the sliding window to different positions along a time axis to group the video frames into the plurality of groups of video frames, wherein the video frames are ordered with respect to the time axis, and wherein frame-level quality scores of a particular group of video frames are used to determine a group-level quality score for the particular group of video frames.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14 , wherein the moving thumbnail comprises a subset of the video frames that have timestamps within a range from a start timestamp to an end timestamp, the operations further comprising:

modifying the subset of the video frames of the moving thumbnail to cause at least one of a first video frame of the subset of the video frames or a last video frame of the subset of the video frames to be proximate a shot boundary of the video item; and

modifying a playback speed of the moving thumbnail in view of motion measured in the subset of the video frames of the moving thumbnail.

18. A system comprising:

a memory; and

a processing device, coupled to the memory, the processing device to:

determine frame-level quality scores for video frames of a video item;

apply a sliding window to the video frames to identify a plurality of groups of video frames for scoring on a group-level, wherein the sliding window groups the video frames into the plurality of groups of video frames, wherein at least two of the groups of video frames comprise a same video frame, and wherein the plurality of groups of video frames are scored on the group-level to provide an indication of a quality of a respective group of video frames for inclusion in a moving thumbnail;

determine a plurality of group-level quality scores for the plurality of groups of video frames of the video item using the frame-level quality scores of the video frames;

select one of the plurality of groups of video frames of the video item based on the plurality of group-level quality scores; and

create the moving thumbnail using the selected group of video frames selected based on the respective group level quality score.

19. The system of claim 18 , wherein to determine frame-level quality scores for the video frames, the processing device further to:

generate one or more quality scores for each of the video frames in view of one or more of a plurality of frame-level scorers; and

aggregate the one or more quality scores for each of the video frames to generate the frame-level quality scores for the video frames, wherein the frame-level quality score for a respective one of the video frames is indicative of a quality of the respective video frame of the video item.

20. The system of claim 18 , the processing device further to:

modify a subset of the video frames of the moving thumbnail to cause at least one of a first video frame of the subset of the video frames or a last video frame of the subset of the video frames to be proximate a shot boundary of the video item; and

modify a playback speed of the moving thumbnail in view of motion measured in the subset of the video frames of the moving thumbnail.