Content-based browsing of video sequences

  • Authors:

  • F. Arman;R. Depommier;A. Hsu;M.-Y. Chiu

  • Affiliations:

  • Siemens Corporate Research, Inc., 755 College Road East, Princeton, New Jersey;Siemens Corporate Research, Inc., 755 College Road East, Princeton, New Jersey;Siemens Corporate Research, Inc., 755 College Road East, Princeton, New Jersey;Siemens Corporate Research, Inc., 755 College Road East, Princeton, New Jersey

  • Venue:
  • MULTIMEDIA '94 Proceedings of the second ACM international conference on Multimedia
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

A novel methodology to represent the contents of a video sequence is presented. The representation is used to allow the user to rapidly view a video sequence in order to find a particular point within the sequence and/or to decide whether the contents of the sequence are relevant to his or her needs. This system, referred to as content-based browsing, forms an abstraction to represent each shot of the sequence by using a representative frame, or an Rframe, and it includes management techniques to allow the user to easily navigate the Rframes. This methodology is superior to the current techniques of fast forward and rewind because rather than using every frame to view and judge the contents, only a few abstractions are used. Therefore, the need to retrieve the video from a storage system and to transmit every frame over the network in its entirety no longer exists, saving time, expenses, and bandwidth.