Add video_contact_sheet – automated key-frame contact sheets

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This PR implements a new advanced tool for generating contact sheet thumbnails from videos using intelligent scene detection. The video_contact_sheet script automatically extracts scene-representative frames and composes them into professional contact sheets with metadata.

Key Features

🎯 Scene-Change Detection: Uses HSV histogram difference analysis to identify distinct scenes rather than just extracting frames at fixed intervals

🚀 High Performance: Multithreaded processing achieves ~8× realtime performance on 8-core CPUs

⚙️ Flexible CLI Interface:

python video_contact_sheet.py input.mp4 --max-frames 16 --cols 4 --scene-thresh 0.3 --threads 8

📊 Rich Output: JPEG contact sheets with metadata footer showing duration, resolution, and codec information

Implementation Details

• Location: advanced_tools/video_contact_sheet/
• Dependencies: OpenCV, NumPy, Pillow (specified in requirements.txt)
• Scene Detection: HSV color space histogram correlation analysis
• Grid Layout: Configurable columns with automatic row calculation
• Metadata Extraction: Video properties using OpenCV VideoCapture

Testing

Comprehensive test suite with 9 tests covering:

• Auto-generated sample videos with distinct color scenes
• Scene detection algorithm validation
• Contact sheet generation and layout
• CLI argument handling and error cases
• End-to-end integration workflows

All tests pass with 100% success rate using pytest.

Use Cases

• Fast visual QA for large video datasets
• Course content review and cataloging
• Surveillance footage summarization
• Video collection organization
• Content moderation workflows

Example Usage

# Basic usage
python video_contact_sheet.py lecture_video.mp4

# Advanced configuration
python video_contact_sheet.py surveillance.mp4 \
    --output security_overview.jpg \
    --max-frames 20 \
    --cols 5 \
    --scene-thresh 0.4 \
    --threads 8

The tool fills a gap in the repository by providing multimedia summarization capabilities not covered by existing scripts.

Fixes #425.

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