Segmentation sémantique des contenus audio-visuels

Dans ce travail, nous avons mis au point une méthode de segmentation des contenus audiovisuels applicable aux appareils de stockage domestiques pour cela nous avons expérimenté un système distribué pour l’analyse du contenu composé de modules individuels d’analyse : les Service Unit. L’un d’entre eux a été dédié à la caractérisation des éléments hors contenu, i.e. les publicités, et offre de bonnes performances. Parallèlement, nous avons testé différents détecteurs de changement de plans afin de retenir le meilleur d’entre eux pour la suite. Puis, nous avons proposé une étude des règles de production des films, i.e. grammaire de films, qui a permis de définir les séquences de Parallel Shot. Nous avons, ainsi, testé quatre méthodes de regroupement basées similarité afin de retenir la meilleure d’entre elles pour la suite. Finalement, nous avons recherché différentes méthodes de détection des frontières de scènes et avons obtenu les meilleurs résultats en combinant une méthode basée couleur avec un critère de longueur de plan. Ce dernier offre des performances justifiant son intégration dans les appareils de stockage grand public.In this work we elaborated a method for semantic segmentation of audiovisual content applicable for consumer electronics storage devices. For the specific solution we researched first a service-oriented distributed multimedia content analysis framework composed of individual content analysis modules, i.e. Service Units. One of the latter was dedicated to identify non-content related inserts, i.e. commercials blocks, which reached high performance results. In a subsequent step we researched and benchmarked various Shot Boundary Detectors and implement the best performing one as Service Unit. Here after, our study of production rules, i.e. film grammar, provided insights of Parallel Shot sequences, i.e. Cross-Cuttings and Shot-Reverse-Shots. We researched and benchmarked four similarity-based clustering methods, two colour- and two feature-point-based ones, in order to retain the best one for our final solution. Finally, we researched several audiovisual Scene Boundary Detector methods and achieved best results combining a colour-based method with a shot length based criteria. This Scene Boundary Detector identified semantic scene boundaries with a robustness of 66% for movies and 80% for series, which proofed to be sufficient for our envisioned application Advanced Content Navigation

Method and apparatus for selection of content from a stream of data

A main stream contains successive content elements of video and/or audio information that encode video and/or audio information at a first data rate. A computation circuit (144) computes main fingerprints from the successive content elements. A reference stream is received having a second data rate lower than the first data rate. The reference stream defines a sequence of the reference fingerprints. A comparator unit (144) compares the main fingerprints with the reference fingerprints. The main stream is monitored for the presence of inserted content elements between original content elements, where the original content elements have main fingerprints that match successive reference fingerprints and the inserted content elements have main fingerprints that do not match reference fingerprints. Rendering of inserted content elements to be skipped. In an embodiment when more than one content element matches only one is rendered. In another embodiment matching is used to control zapping to or from the main stream. In another embodiment matching is used to control linking of separately received mark-up information such as subtitles to points in the main stream.<br/

Method and apparatus for selection of content from a stream of data

A main stream contains successive content elements of video and/or audio information that encode video and/or audio information at a first data rate. A computation circuit (144) computes main fingerprints from the successive content elements. A reference stream is received having a second data rate lower than the first data rate. The reference stream defines a sequence of the reference fingerprints. A comparator unit (144) compares the main fingerprints with the reference fingerprints. The main stream is monitored for the presence of inserted content elements between original content elements, where the original content elements have main fingerprints that match successive reference fingerprints and the inserted content elements have main fingerprints that do not match reference fingerprints. Rendering of inserted content elements to be skipped. In an embodiment when more than one content element matches only one is rendered. In another embodiment matching is used to control zapping to or from the main stream. In another embodiment matching is used to control linking of separately received mark-up information such as subtitles to points in the main stream

Method and apparatus for selection of content from a stream of data

A main stream contains successive content elements of video and/or audio information that encode video and/or audio information at a first data rate. A computation circuit (144) computes main fingerprints from the successive content elements. A reference stream is received having a second data rate lower than the first data rate. The reference stream defines a sequence of the reference fingerprints. A comparator unit (144) compares the main fingerprints with the reference fingerprints. The main stream is monitored for the presence of inserted content elements between original content elements, where the original content elements have main fingerprints that match successive reference fingerprints and the inserted content elements have main fingerprints that do not match reference fingerprints. Rendering of inserted content elements to be skipped. In an embodiment when more than one content element matches only one is rendered. In another embodiment matching is used to control zapping to or from the main stream. In another embodiment matching is used to control linking of separately received mark-up information such as subtitles to points in the main stream