In this paper, we present a novel scheme for automatic video scene extraction. A pseudo-object-based shot representation containing more semantics is proposed to measure shot similarity and an force competition approach is proposed to group shots into scene based on content coherences between shots. Two content descriptors, color objects: Dominant Color Histograms (DCH) and Spatial Structure Histograms (SSH), are introduced. To represent temporal content variations, a shot can be segmented into several subshots that are of coherent content, and shot similarity measure is formulated as subshot similarity measure. With this shot representation, scene structure can be extracted by analyzing the splitting and merging force competitions at each shot boundary. Experiment on MPEG-7 test videos achieves promising results by the proposed algorithm.
['Tong Lin', 'Hong-Jiang Zhang', 'Qing-Yun Shi']
Video scene extraction by force competition