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Efficient video data management calls for intelligent video summarization tools that automatically generate concise video summaries for fast skimming and browsing. Traditional video summarization techniques are based on low-level feature analysis, which generally fails to capture the semantics of video content. Our vision is that users unintentionally embed their understanding of the video content in their interaction with computers. This valuable knowledge, which is difficult for computers to learn autonomously, can be utilized for video summarization process. In this paper, we present an intelligent video browsing and summarization system that utilizes previous viewers ' browsing log to facilitate future viewers. Specifically, a novel ShotRank notion is proposed as a measure of the subjective interestingness and importance of each video shot. A ShotRank computatio