Scientists have created a program that removes the boring parts of videos

No one wants to watch a boring video. Luckily, computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have created a program that promises to cut the “boring” out automatically. Called LiveLight, the algorithm was the brainchild of Eric P. Xing, professor of machine learning, and Bin Zhao, a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon. Their project has won support from Google, the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, among others. Zhao said the idea emerged when Xing was trying to find shareable parts of videos of his son. Instead of sitting through tedious minutes or hours of footage, the computer algorithm “can pinpoint what is interesting in the video,” Zhao told CBS News. It skips over the parts with little action and produces a trailer of the video’s best moments.