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Let's say you like the jungle. You have a few Survivor episodes and Predator movies. You'd like to separate the jungle clips from clips involving humans. Maybe to play as a projector show at a party, or so.

My first thought: many shows and movies are hysterically chopped up in shots. As such a shot shift is often dramatic in terms of on-screen data change, they could be detected, and then each shot saved as a separate file. This will take some time, but when it's done you could manually sort out the jungle.

But, some jungle would be lost because some shots slide from jungle to human, or from human to jungle.

Then I thought, some digital cameras are able to spot humans and instantaneously give them focus. If I had that, I could simply drop all frames with humans.

Do you know of such software?

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You may need an application which will present you all the frames of movie. Whereby you can pickup all those frames you want and combine them for later use. "…; –  SHW Jun 25 '12 at 10:00
That is, you think it is not realistic to automatize? –  Emanuel Berg Jun 25 '12 at 10:02

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Use opencv. There are plenty of examples of processing video and face detection.

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