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Re:Improving YouTube video thumbnails with deep neural nets by JoshTriplett on Friday October 09, 2015 @10:40PM (#10364250)
> After uploading, YT gives you 3-5 thumbnails you can choose from.

Can you pick an arbitrary video frame, or only one of the suggested thumbnails?

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Re:Improving YouTube video thumbnails with deep neural nets by nacs on Friday October 09, 2015 @10:52PM (#10364275)
It automatically captures 3 different thumbnails (I guess using the algorithm in OP) and lets you select any 1 of those 3.
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Re:Improving YouTube video thumbnails with deep neural nets by lumpypua on Saturday October 10, 2015 @06:30AM (#10365093)
I presume they use the image selection as training data too—if not that seems like awfully low hanging data fruit.
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Re:Improving YouTube video thumbnails with deep neural nets by chadzawistowski on Friday October 09, 2015 @10:52PM (#10364277)
Many videos seem to have completely arbitrary thumbnails which are not from the video. Most of the Epic Rap Battles videos, for example.

Perhaps this option 'unlocks' after you reach a certain subscriber count.

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Re:Improving YouTube video thumbnails with deep neural nets by JoshTriplett on Friday October 09, 2015 @11:01PM (#10364301)
As mentioned upthread:

> partnered accounts are allowed to upload custom thumbnails (which can be any image, not necessarily even a screenshot from the video).

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