Segmentation Techniques for Video Sequences in the Domain of MPEG-Compressed Data

Abstract

Video segmentation into shots is the first step in content-based analysis of digital video. This chapter provides a comprehensive taxonomy and critical survey of the existing techniques for video segmentation operating on MPEG video stream. Their performance, relative merits and limitations are discussed and contrasted. The gradual development of the techniques and their similarities with the video segmentation methods operating on uncompressed video are also considered.