Intelligent browsing of concert videos

ABSTRACT

The MultimediaN concert-video browser demonstrates a video interaction environment for efficiently browsing the live performance records in the pop, rock and other music concerts. The underlying automatic analyzer extracts the instrumental solos and applause sections in the concert videos and also the level of excitement along the performances. The extracted information is provided to the user via a web-based interface to let them enjoy a much more advanced experience of browsing through the concerts. Taking the unorganized structure of the concerts and the desire for non-sequential access to the content, our system is a step-forward to make large concert video databases accessible. The demo system also allows us to exhibit the power and robustness of our algorithms that are able to perform well in a highly heterogeneous and noisy context of music concerts.

REFERENCES

• 1: http://www.fabchannel.com/.
• 2: van Houten, Y., U. Naci, B. Freiburg, R. Eggermont, S. Schuurman, D. Hollander, J. Reitsma, M. Markslag, J. Kniest, M. Veenstra and A. Hanjalic, "The Multimedian Concert-Video Browser", ICME 2005, pp. 1561--1564, July 2005.
• 3: Hanjalic A., L.-Q. Xu: Affective video content representation and modeling, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, February 2005.

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.3 Information Search and Retrieval
          Subjects: Retrieval models

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.3 Information Search and Retrieval
          Subjects: Information filtering

General Terms:
Algorithms, Design

Keywords:
audio analysis, concert video analysis, intelligent browsing