TV commercial detection in news program videos

Detection of the commercials in TV videos is hard because the diversity of them puts up a rather high barrier to finding an appropriate model. After some studies of existing commercial detection works, we try to deal with this problem through a top-down approach. We select some commercial features by conjecturing the thoughts of both commercial producers and the audiences. By combining the commercial features with a video scene detection mechanism, a two-level commercial detection scheme is proposed. Experiments show the good results of the proposed scheme in detecting commercials in news program videos.