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Video Content Structure

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Video structuring; Video structure analysis

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Mining video content structure is an elementary step of video content analysis. Direct access to a video without indexing is usually not an easy task, due to its length and unstructured format. On the other hand, analogous to text documents that can be decomposed into chapters, paragraphs, sentences and words, videos can be segmented into units like scenes, shots, and keyframes. The analysis of video content structure can be viewed as the process of hierarchically decomposing videos into units and building their relationships. Through such a process, a table-of-content can be constructed for each video, which facilitates the access and manipulations of the video data. For example, the keyframes extracted from the video can be used as its entries for indexing and browsing.

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More and more videodata has become available to ordinary users due to the advances in storage devices, networks and compression...

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  1. Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China

    Xian-Sheng Hua & Meng Wang

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  1. College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 266 Ferst Drive, 30332-0765, Atlanta, GA, USA

    LING LIU (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Database Research Group David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. TAMER ÖZSU (Professor and Director, University Research Chair) (Professor and Director, University Research Chair)

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Hua, XS., Wang, M. (2009). Video Content Structure. In: LIU, L., ÖZSU, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_1020

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