Video Summarization Using R-Sequences

I n this paper, we propose a new method of temporal summarization of digital video. First, we address the problem of extracting a fixed number of representative frames to summarize a given digital video. To solve it, we have devised an algorithm called content-based adaptive clustering (CBAC). In our algorithm, shot boundary detection is not needed. Video frames are treated as points in the multi-dimensional feature space corresponding to a low-level feature such as color, motion, shape and texture. The changes of their distances are compared globally for extraction of representative frames. Second, we address how to use the representative frames to comprise representative sequences (R-Sequence) which can be used for temporal summarization of video. A video player based on our devised algorithm is developed which has functions of contentbased browsing and content-based video summary. Experiments are also shown in the paper.