Mythcomm: A Program for Removing Commercials Quickly

While the advertisements shown by television stations pay for the content that the stations provide, most of us would rather not watch them. This paper describes a system called mythcomm that attempts to make removing them easy through a visualization. We want to do this quickly, since it would be as worthwhile to simply watch the commercials if it took too long. Mythcomm takes advantage of the visual system’s ability to spot anomalous objects quickly from among a large group. To aid the visual system in doing this, it tries to place similar looking objects near each other using clusters.