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Video information processing and retrieval is a key aspect of future multimedia technologies and applications. Commercial videos encode several planes of expression through a rich and dense use of colors, editing effects, viewpoints and rhythms, which are exploited together to attract potential purchasers. Databases of commercials can be accessed in order to analyze how a commercial has been developed, retrieve commercials similar to an example, catalogue commercials according to the kind of message conveyed to the user. In this paper, we present a system allowing the retrieval of commercial streams based on their salient semantics. Semantics is regarded from the semiotics perspective: collections of signs and semantic features like colors, editing effects, motion etc. are used as basic blocks with which the meaning of a commercial is constructed. In our system, it is possible to retrieve commercials according to both the meaning they convey and to their similarity to examples.
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Assfalg, J., Colombo, C., Del Bimbo, A., Pala, P. (1998). Embodying semiotic cues in video retrieval. In: Ip, H.H.S., Smeulders, A.W.M. (eds) Multimedia Information Analysis and Retrieval. MINAR 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1464. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0016488
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