Video Content Representation and Indexing using Hierarchical Structure

Abstract

An efficient representation and indexing of video content are proposed using hierarchical structure. The hierarchical structure is constructed through shots grouping and scenes clustering. The video representation provides browsing capabilities for digital video databases. The video indexing supports more efficient content-based queries and retrieval capabilities for digital video databases. To implement the video representation and indexing system, hierarchical video structure is constructed. For constructing the hierarchical video structure, some techniques of video processing must be investigated and implemented, including segmenting the video as shots, grouping the shots into scenes and clustering the scenes. The process is designed to work on MPEG-II sequence, where only a partial decoding is required.