Fast Search Algorithm for Short Video Clips from Large Video Database Using a Novel Histogram Feature

In this paper, we present a novel fast video search algorithm for large video database. This algorithm is based on the adjacent pixel intensity difference quantization (APIDQ) algorithm, which had been reliably applied to human face recognition previously. An APIDQ histogram is utilized as the feature vector of the frame image. Combined with active search, a temporal pruning algorithm, fast and robust video search can be achieved. The proposed search algorithm has been evaluated by 6 hours of video to search for given 200 video clips which each length is 15 seconds. Experimental results show the proposed algorithm can detect the similar video clip in merely 80 ms, and is more accurately and robust against Gaussian noise than conventional fast video search algorithm.