Adaptive acceleration and shot stacking for video rushes summarization

ABSTRACT

As the amount of recorded video data continually increases, a lot of teams around the world work to propose original methods on automatic video summarization. A particular kind of video is a rush: a rough draft of a movie or a documentary. In this paper, an approach is proposed to summarize the BBC rushes within the scope of the 2008 TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation task. We propose to summarize the videos by applying two successive steps, each dealing with a particular reduction. First, the stacking step focuses on the reduction of the macro redundancy with respect to similar takes of the same scene (rushes). The second step focuses on the time redundancy of the video flow and can be interpreted as an adaptive acceleration.

This approach provides good inclusion rates.

REFERENCES

• 1: ACM. TRECVid Workshop on Video Summarization (TVS'07 at ACM Multimedia'07, Augsburg, Germany, September 2007.
• 2: Marcin Detyniecki , Christophe Marsala, Video rushes summarization by adaptive acceleration and stacking of shots, Proceedings of the international workshop on TRECVID video summarization, p.65-69, September 28-28, 2007, Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany [doi>10.1145/1290031.1290043]
• 3: Paul Over , Alan F. Smeaton , George Awad, The trecvid 2008 BBC rushes summarization evaluation, Proceedings of the 2nd ACM TRECVid Video Summarization Workshop, p.1-20, October 31-31, 2008, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada [doi>10.1145/1463563.1463564]
• 4: Paul Over , Alan F. Smeaton , Philip Kelly, The trecvid 2007 BBC rushes summarization evaluation pilot, Proceedings of the international workshop on TRECVID video summarization, p.1-15, September 28-28, 2007, Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany [doi>10.1145/1290031.1290032]
• 5: Alan F. Smeaton , Paul Over , Wessel Kraaij, Evaluation campaigns and TRECVid, Proceedings of the 8th ACM international workshop on Multimedia information retrieval, October 26-27, 2006, Santa Barbara, California, USA [doi>10.1145/1178677.1178722]

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.1 Multimedia Information Systems
          Subjects: Video (e.g., tape, disk, DVI)

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.1 Multimedia Information Systems
          Subjects: Evaluation/methodology

General Terms:
Algorithms, Experimentation, Performance

Keywords:
adaptive acceleration, shot stacking, trecvid 2008, video summarization