The recent increase in the number of videos available in cyberspace is due to the availability
of multimedia devices, highly developed communication technologies, and low-cost storage …

Video indexing and retrieval have a wide spectrum of promising applications, motivating the
interest of researchers worldwide. This paper offers a tutorial and an overview of the …

Use of test collections and evaluation measures to assess the effectiveness of information
retrieval systems has its origins in work dating back to the early 1950s. Across the nearly 60 …

In this paper, we review 300 references on video retrieval, indicating when text-only
solutions are unsatisfactory and showing the promising alternatives which are in majority …

Shot boundary detection (SBD) is the process of automatically detecting the boundaries
between shots in video. It is a problem which has attracted much attention since video …

Reaction times exhibit a spectral patterning known as 1/f, and these patterns can be thought
of as reflecting time-varying changes in attention. We investigated the shot structure of …

Successful and effective content-based access to digital video requires fast, accurate and
scalable methods to determine the video content automatically. A variety of contemporary …

A number of researchers have been building high-level semantic concept detectors such as
outdoors, face, building, to help with semantic video retrieval. Our goal is to examine how …

This book traces the development of popular cinema from its inception to the present day to
understand why humankind has expanded its viewing of popular movies over the last …

A number of researchers have been building high-level semantic concept detectors such as
outdoors, face, building, etc., to help with semantic video retrieval. Using the TRECVID video …