PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To accurately detect semantic video boundaries, also commonly referred to as chapter boundaries or scene boundaries, by the processing of segments of the video, such as shots.SOLUTION: The technique detects semantic video boundaries directly by making a semantic video boundary hypothesis at a segment boundary and verifying that hypothesis by examining a variable, according to the content at the location, number of segments (each segment is represented by a variable number of samples, the variable number being variable according to the contents of the segment) around the hypothesis, and assessing the degree to which segments before the semantic video boundary hypothesis are linked to segments after the semantic video boundary hypothesis and/or the degree to which segments before/after the semantic video boundary hypothesis are linked to each other.
DETECTION OF SEMANTIC VIDEO BOUNDARIES