PCA-based approach for video scene change detection on compressed video

An automatic, real-time detection approach to video scene change detection is presented. Owing to the high correlation of two consecutive video frames, it is proposed that only the eigenvector corresponding to the largest eigenvalue is retained in the principal component analysis (PCA) for video data. A one-dimensional PCA feature of video data is then generated from the PCA. It shows superior performance compared to the histogram feature and the pixel feature. The detection algorithm based on this PCA feature is then designed to detect both abrupt and gradual transitions. The proposed approach is tested on the TREC video test repository to validate its performance