Highly efficient low-level feature extraction for video representation and retrieval.

PhDWitnessing the omnipresence of digital video media, the research community has raised the question of its meaningful use and management. Stored in immense multimedia databases, digital videos need to be retrieved and structured in an intelligent way, relying on the content and the rich semantics involved. Current Content Based Video Indexing and Retrieval systems face the problem of the semantic gap between the simplicity of the available visual features and the richness of user semantics. This work focuses on the issues of efficiency and scalability in video indexing and retrieval to facilitate a video representation model capable of semantic annotation. A highly efficient algorithm for temporal analysis and key-frame extraction is developed. It is based on the prediction information extracted directly from the compressed domain features and the robust scalable analysis in the temporal domain. Furthermore, a hierarchical quantisation of the colour features in the descriptor space is presented. Derived from the extracted set of low-level features, a video representation model that enables semantic annotation and contextual genre classification is designed. Results demonstrate the efficiency and robustness of the temporal analysis algorithm that runs in real time maintaining the high precision and recall of the detection task. Adaptive key-frame extraction and summarisation achieve a good overview of the visual content, while the colour quantisation algorithm efficiently creates hierarchical set of descriptors. Finally, the video representation model, supported by the genre classification algorithm, achieves excellent results in an automatic annotation system by linking the video clips with a limited lexicon of related keywords

Design of Video Retrieval System Using MPEG-7 Descriptors

AbstractThe paper proposes a content-based video retrieval system designed using MPEG-7 (multimedia content description interface), which provides a standard description for a video. The system consists of three parts: shot boundary detection, feature extraction and similarity measurement. In shot boundary detection, cut and dissolve can be detected using the histogram difference and skipping image difference, respectively. In feature extraction part, two MPEG-7 visual descriptors, Color Structure Descriptor (CSD) and Edge Histogram Descriptor (EHD), are used to represent the color feature and edge feature of the key frames. Lastly, the similarity between key frames is calculated using dynamic-weighted feature similarity calculation. The proposed system is tested on three kinds of videos. Promising results are obtained in terms of both effectiveness and efficiency

Digital Image Access & Retrieval

The 33th Annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing, held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in March of 1996, addressed the theme of "Digital Image Access & Retrieval." The papers from this conference cover a wide range of topics concerning digital imaging technology for visual resource collections. Papers covered three general areas: (1) systems, planning, and implementation; (2) automatic and semi-automatic indexing; and (3) preservation with the bulk of the conference focusing on indexing and retrieval.published or submitted for publicatio

Automatic Annotation of Images from the Practitioner Perspective

This paper describes an ongoing project which seeks to contribute to a wider understanding of the realities of bridging the semantic gap in visual image retrieval. A comprehensive survey of the means by which real image retrieval transactions are realised is being undertaken. An image taxonomy has been developed, in order to provide a framework within which account may be taken of the plurality of image types, user needs and forms of textual metadata. Significant limitations exhibited by current automatic annotation techniques are discussed, and a possible way forward using ontologically supported automatic content annotation is briefly considered as a potential means of mitigating these limitations

Computationally Efficient Algorithm for Detecting Moving Objects with Moving Background

Abstract— The area of moving object detection has been a constant topic of research in more than a decade, where a research community have witnessed various significant contribution in the past that mitigates the problem of real-time and moving object detection. In our prior studies, we have addressed such issues using various sophisticated technique yielding superior results. But, it is felt that some light weight algorithm is required for the purpose of performing moving object detection with complete retention of object detection accuracy. This paper have presented a very simple algorithm that uses visual descriptor for extracting the dynamic features during fast transition of frames. The proposed algorithm is tested with one of the most significant work done recently on same purpose with respect to precision and recall rate along with analysis of processing time of proposed algorithm