This paper conducts a formal study of the shot boundary detection problem. First, a general
formal framework of shot boundary detection techniques is proposed. Three critical …

Today a considerable amount of video data in multimedia databases requires sophisticated
indices for its effective use. Manual indexing is the most effective method to do this, but it is …

Many algorithms have been proposed for detecting video shot boundaries and classifying
shot and shot transition types. Few published studies compare available algorithms, and …

Partitioning a video sequence into shots is the first step toward video-content analysis and
content-based video browsing and retrieval. A video shot is defined as a series of …

New methods for detecting shot boundaries in video sequences and for extracting key
frames using metrics based on information theory are proposed. The method for shot …

The optical flow guidance strategy is ideal for obtaining motion information of objects in the
video. It is widely utilized in video segmentation tasks. However, existing optical flow-based …

A fundamental task in video analysis is to extract structures from the video to facilitate user's
access (browsing and retrieval). Motivated by the important role that the table of content …

Effective and efficient tools for segmenting and content-based indexing of digital video are
essential to allow easy access to video-based information. Most existing segmentation …

Video and Image Processing in Multimedia Systems treats a number of critical topics in
multimedia systems, with respect to image and video processing techniques and their …

Film genres in digital video can be detected automatically. In a three-step approach we
analyze first the syntactic properties of digital films: color statistics, cut detection, camera …