<title>Automatic key-frame selection for content-based video indexing and access</title>

Abstract

This paper addresses key-frame selection for content-based video indexing and access. The proposed key-frame selection method is aimed to operate in real-time irrespective of the available computation resources and memory. Hence, we provide three solutions to content-based key-frame selection with different costs, and suggests three operation levels. The suggested key-frame selection method has two major parts: (i) segmentation of the video into shots; (ii) analysis of the motion and color activity within each video shot to selected additional frames. We also prove a new color based approach to key-frame selection and discuss how to fuse color and motion based key-frame selection results.