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Using string matching to detect video transitions

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The detection of shot boundaries in videos captures the structure of the image sequences by the identification of transitional effects. This task is important in the video indexing and retrieval domain. The video slice or visual rhythm is a single two-dimensional image sampling that has been used to detect several types of video events, including transitions. We use the longest common subsequence (LCS) between two strings to transform the video slice into one-dimensional signals obtaining a highly simplified representation of the video content. We also developed a chain of mathematical morphology operations over these signals leading to the detection of the most frequent video transitions, namely, cut, fade, and wipe. The algorithms are tested with success with various genres of videos.

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  1. 2001 TREC Video Retrieval Test Collection, available at http://www.open-video.org.

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  1. Universidade de Fortaleza, UNIFOR, Washington Soares, 1321/J30, 60811-905, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil

    Francisco Nivando Bezerra

  2. Universidade Estadual de Campinas, UNICAMP, Caixa Postal 6176, 13084-971, Campinas, SP, Brazil

    Neucimar Jerônimo Leite

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Bezerra, F.N., Leite, N.J. Using string matching to detect video transitions. Pattern Anal Applic 10, 45–54 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10044-006-0049-3

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