Adaptive Video News Story Tracking based on Earth Mover´S Distance

Author

Uddenfeldt, Mats ; Hoashi, Keiichiro ; Matsumoto, Kazunori ; Sugaya, Fumiaki

Author_Institution

Signals & Syst., Uppsala Univ.

fYear

2006

fDate

9-12 July 2006

Firstpage

1029

Lastpage

1032

Abstract

This paper proposes an adaptive system for video news story tracking based on the earth mover´s distance (EMD). When an interesting story appears in the news, it is flagged manually as a topic for tracking. Our system then tracks the events as they unfold over time and present accumulated results to the user for feedback. This feedback is used to adapt the topic model to changes in the tracked story. EMD provides the system with a robust way of performing many-to-many matching of news stories independent of the temporal order of their contents. This is particularly suitable in the news genre as stories often are subjected to video editing between shows. Experiments have been run with a range of topics and show promising results

Keywords

image matching; text editing; video signal processing; EMD; adaptive video news story tracking; earth mover distance; many-to-many matching; video editing; Adaptive systems; Automatic speech recognition; Broadcasting; Couplings; Earth; Feature extraction; Feedback; Laboratories; Multimedia communication; Research and development;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia and Expo, 2006 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Toronto, Ont.

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0366-7

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0367-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICME.2006.262709

Filename

4036778