Authors:
Bart Lehane
1
;
Noel E. O’Connor
2
and
Hyowon Lee
1
Affiliations:
1
Centre for Digital Video Processing, Dublin City University, Ireland
;
2
Adaptive Information Cluster, Centre for Digital Video Processing, Dublin City University, Ireland
Keyword(s):
Video Retrieval, Event-Based Movie Indexing, Video Searching.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems
;
Multimedia
;
Multimedia Databases, Indexing, Recognition and Retrieval
;
Multimedia Systems and Applications
;
Telecommunications
Abstract:
The number, and size, of digital video databases is continuously growing. Unfortunately, most, if not all, of the video content in these databases is stored without any sort of indexing or analysis and without any associated metadata. If any of the videos do have metadata, then it is usually the result of some manual annotation process rather than any automatic indexing. Locating clips and browsing content is difficult, time consuming and generally inefficient. The task of managing a set of movies is particularly difficult given their innovative creation process and the individual style of directors. This paper proposes a method of searching video data in order to retrieve semantic events thereby facilitating management of video databases. An interface is created which allows users to perform searching using the proposed method. In order to assess the searching method, this interface is used to conduct a set of experiments in which users are timed completing a set of tasks using both
the searching method and an alternate, keyframe based, retrieval method. These experiments evaluate the searching method, and demonstrate it’s versatility.
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