Multi-document video summarization

  • Authors:
  • Feng Wang;Bernard Merialdo

  • Affiliations:
  • Multimedia Communications Deptartment, Institute Eurecom, Sophia-Antipolis, France;Multimedia Communications Deptartment, Institute Eurecom, Sophia-Antipolis, France

  • Venue:
  • ICME'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Multimedia and Expo
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Most previous works on video summarization target on a single video document. With the popularity of video corpus (e.g. news video archives) and web videos, video article that consists of a set of relevant videos are frequently confronted by users. By the traditional single-document summarization, these videos are treated independently and the results are usually redundant due to the lack of inter-video analysis. To efficiently manage video articles, in this paper, we propose an approach for multi-document video summarization by exploring the redundancy between different videos. The importance of keyframes is first measured by the content inclusion based on intra- and inter-video similarities. We then propose a Minimum Description Length (MDL) for automatically determining the appropriate length of the summary. Finally a video summary is generated for users to browse the content of the whole video article. We show that multidocument video summarization presents more elegant and informative summaries compared with single-document approach.