SVM-Based Shot Boundary Detection with a Novel Feature

This paper describes our new algorithm for shot boundary detection and its evaluation. We adopt a 2-stage data fusion approach with SVM technique to decide whether a boundary exists or not within a given video sequence. This approach is useful to avoid huge feature space problems, even when we adopt many promising features extracted from a video sequence. We also introduce a novel feature to improve detection. The feature consists of two kinds of values extracted from a local frame sequence. One is the image difference between the target frame and that synthesized from the neighbors. The other is the difference between neighbors. This feature can be extracted quickly with a least-square technique. Evaluation of our algorithm is conducted with the TRECVID evaluation framework. Our system obtained a high performance at a shot boundary detection task in TRECVID2005