Video retrieval using salient foreground region of motion vector based extracted keyframes and spatial pyramid matching

Abstract

Despite enormous research efforts devoted by the research community to effectively and precisely perform video matching and retrieval among heterogeneous videos from large-scale video repositories still remains a complex and most challenging task. In order to address this complex challenge, a content based video retrieval technique is required, which can exploit the visual content of the videos for effective retrieval from the videos repositories. In our proposed method, we introduce a computer assisted video retrieval technique which can retrieve the visually similar videos stored in the repositories. To accomplish this task, video summarization based on motion vector is employed to select keyframes based on similar segments. To estimate the video content, salient foreground extraction is executed, and matching based on the spatial pyramid is employed for matching the keyframe features of query video with videos in the repositories. The contribution of the former process has two major sections for superior saliency map generation. Firstly, it heuristically integrates the regional property, contrast, and foreground descriptors together. Secondly, it introduces a new feature vector to characterize the foreground as an object descriptor, while the latter process is the extension of orderless bag-of-features representation, which has significant performance with respect to scene categorization. The video retrieval performance is compared with standard state-of-the-art techniques using real-time datasets. Experimental and usability studies provide satisfactory results for video retrieval based on evaluation metrics such as video sampling error, fidelity, precision, and recall.