Video abstraction

The demand for various multimedia applications is rapidly increasing due to the recent advance in the computing and network infrastructure, together with the widespread use of digital video technology. Among the key elements for the success of these applications is how to effectively and efficiently manage and store a huge amount of audio visual information, while at the same time providing user-friendly access to the stored data. This has fueled a quickly evolving research area known as video abstraction . As the name implies, video abstraction is a mechanism for generating a short summary of a video, which can either be a sequence of stationary images ( keyframes ) or moving images ( video skims ). In terms…