A novel technique for automatic abrupt shot transition detection

In this article, we propose a novel automatic thresholding method for the detection of abrupt shot transition (AST), based on statistics of the pixel difference value of the consecutive frames, from a given video sequence. An outlier removal and a false alarm elimination scheme are also introduced to counteract the disturbances from illumination variations, object and camera movements. Experimental results and comparisons with state-of-the-art SBD schemes show the effectiveness of the proposed method and having average superior accuracy.