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From 10,000 frames to 30 moments: Building a visual story compressor

Two hours at 2fps is around 14,000 frames. Most of them are noise: the cursor blinks, the system clock ticks, nothing in the code moved. The first step isn't clever. It's just getting rid of those.

  • ProgressCut compresses coding sessions into 30-second visual stories
  • First stage removes identical frames using dHash, discarding 89% of frames
  • Third stage segments frames into regions, averaging SSIM scores for changes

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