Content-based Video Retrieval Techniques Research Articles

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

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.

A Review of Content-Based Video Retrieval Techniques for Person Identification

The rise of technology spurs the advancement in the surveillance field. Many commercial spaces reduced the patrol guard in favor of Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) installation and even some countries already used surveillance drone which has greater mobility. In recent years, the CCTV Footage have also been used for crime investigation by law enforcement such as in Boston Bombing 2013 incident. However, this led us into producing huge unmanageable footage collection, the common issue of Big Data era. While there is more information to identify a potential suspect, the massive size of data needed to go over manually is a very laborious task. Therefore, some researchers proposed using Content-Based Video Retrieval (CBVR) method to enable to query a specific feature of an object or a human. Due to the limitations like visibility and quality of video footage, only certain features are selected for recognition based on Chicago Police Department guidelines. This paper presents the comprehensive reviews on CBVR techniques used for clothing, gender and ethnic recognition of the person of interest and how can it be applied in crime investigation. From the findings, the three recognition types can be combined to create a Content-Based Video Retrieval system for person identification.

Review of Research on Shot Boundary Detection Algorithm of the Compressed Video Domain in Content-based Video Retrieval Technique

Based on the background of extensive use of the video retrieval technique in substation monitoring, this paper focuses on the research of the shot boundary detection methods in the video retrieval technique. The research content is mainly involved in the following four kinds of shot boundary detection methods: the shot boundary detection method based on the base tone, the shot boundary detection method based on the macro- block motion information, the shot boundary detection method based on the motion vector and the video shot segmentation method based on clustering. Through the in-depth explanation and comparison of four kinds of shot boundary detection methods, this paper systematically summarizes the characteristics of four kinds of shot boundary detection methods, and also vividly points out the problems of four kinds of shot boundary detection methods, thus pointing out the direction for the future development of video retrieval technique.

A new visual navigation system for exploring biomedical Open Educational Resource (OER) videos.

Biomedical videos as open educational resources (OERs) are increasingly proliferating on the Internet. Unfortunately, seeking personally valuable content from among the vast corpus of quality yet diverse OER videos is nontrivial due to limitations of today's keyword- and content-based video retrieval techniques. To address this need, this study introduces a novel visual navigation system that facilitates users' information seeking from biomedical OER videos in mass quantity by interactively offering visual and textual navigational clues that are both semantically revealing and user-friendly. The authors collected and processed around 25 000 YouTube videos, which collectively last for a total length of about 4000 h, in the broad field of biomedical sciences for our experiment. For each video, its semantic clues are first extracted automatically through computationally analyzing audio and visual signals, as well as text either accompanying or embedded in the video. These extracted clues are subsequently stored in a metadata database and indexed by a high-performance text search engine. During the online retrieval stage, the system renders video search results as dynamic web pages using a JavaScript library that allows users to interactively and intuitively explore video content both efficiently and effectively.ResultsThe authors produced a prototype implementation of the proposed system, which is publicly accessible athttps://patentq.njit.edu/oer To examine the overall advantage of the proposed system for exploring biomedical OER videos, the authors further conducted a user study of a modest scale. The study results encouragingly demonstrate the functional effectiveness and user-friendliness of the new system for facilitating information seeking from and content exploration among massive biomedical OER videos. Using the proposed tool, users can efficiently and effectively find videos of interest, precisely locate video segments delivering personally valuable information, as well as intuitively and conveniently preview essential content of a single or a collection of videos.

An efficient access method for multimodal video retrieval

This paper presents the Slim 2 -tree, an efficient and effective content-based video retrieval technique allowing the use of multiple modalities within a single index structure. Slim 2 -tree is capable of dealing with different distance measures for the modalities and can perform both multimodal and unimodal searches using the same tree structure. Experimental studies on a large real dataset show the video similarity search performance of the proposed technique. Additionally, we present experiments comparing our method against state-of-the-art of multimodal solutions. Comparative test results demonstrate that our technique improves the performance of video similarity queries.

Efficient targeted search using a focus and context video browser

Currently there are several interactive content-based video retrieval techniques and systems available. However, retrieval performance depends heavily on the means of interaction. We argue that effective CBVR requires efficient, specialized user interfaces. In this article we propose guidelines for such an interface, and we propose an effective CBVR engine: the ForkBrowser, which builds upon the principle of focus and context. This browser is evaluated using a combination of user simulation and real user evaluation. Results indicate that the ideas have merit, and that the browser performs very well when compared to the state-of-the-art in video retrieval.