An Effective Shot Boundary Detection Algorithm for Movies and Sports

The shot change is the first step of video segmentation. Therefore, designing an efficient and low-complexity shot change detection becomes a significant issue. In this paper, we propose a simple and effective approach to detect abrupt shot changes based on interframe difference algorithm. Our approach can decrease false/miss caused by fast object motion and abrupt screen ash effectively. In order to increase the accuracy of shot change detection and decrease the complexity of computation, a novel method are developed to deal with those problems. The experimental result shows the validity of our proposed methods which provide not only a higher detection rate but also a faster computation speed to the shot change scenario.