A structured video browsing tool

Benedetti, G;Bodin, B;Lhuisset, F;Martineau, O;Mérialdo, Bernard
EHCI 1995, IFIP Working Conference on Engineering for Human-Computer Interaction, August 1995, Yellowstone Park, USA

This paper describes a tool for browsing video sequences. It is based on an automatic
decomposition of the sequence into a number of consecutive shots. For each shot, a
representative image is constructed and assigned a hypermedia link to the original video. The images are presented to the user as a document that can be browsed. Selecting an image leads to the playback of the corresponding portion of the video.
While a number of browsers have already been proposed, the novel aspect of our tool is that it is able to perform a hierarchical classification of these shots and to present a structured view of the video sequence. The user can thus get a progressive view to the parts of the video that interest him by moving inside the hierarchical structure. This hierarchical representation is first computed automatically, but it can also be hand-edited so that the user may provide his own structure to the document. The implementation that we propose uses analog video and assumes minimal computing and storage requirements, so that it can be effectively used as a practical system.


DOI
Type:
Conférence
City:
Yellowstone Park
Date:
1995-08-01
Department:
Data Science
Eurecom Ref:
69
Copyright:
© Springer. Personal use of this material is permitted. The definitive version of this paper was published in EHCI 1995, IFIP Working Conference on Engineering for Human-Computer Interaction, August 1995, Yellowstone Park, USA and is available at : http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34907-7_2

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