Grant: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
Centre de recherche informatique de Montréal
$15,000.00
Content-based video summarization system
FY 2009-10
Summary
The evolution of video-related information technologies (network bandwidth, personal camera, compression tools, disk capacity, displays, etc.) has pushed video as the primary medium for the capture, storage and presentation of visual information. Video is now replacing still images in many application areas like, for
instance, video surveillance and on-line Web advertising. From small clips to full feature-length films, digital videos are everywhere and often part of a larger multimedia digital library. As a result, the need for tools that can quickly browse and retrieve video content has increased and led to two major topics in modern computer vision: content-based video retrieval and video summarization.
The proposed research program targets video summarization. The objective is to develop and integrate multimodal analysis tools to segment a video into Logical Story Units (LSU) or scenes based on video elements like shots transitions, key-objects, key-faces, key-places as well as audio characteristics. This will be integrated into a LSU-based GUI, rather than the commun shot- or key-frame-based one, that will provide a graphical ToC to the user with the possibility to access parts of the video from it. The GUI will be adaptable to allow user to access video based on his preferences.
Program
Discovery Grants Program - Individual
Location
Quebec, Canada
Recipient Type
Not-for-profit organization or charity
Type
Grant
Source
NSERC's Awards Data
As published
Application id
227071-2009
Name nom
Gagnon, Langis
Department département
Recherche et Développement
Organization id
71
Institution établissement
Centre de recherche informatique de Montréal
Province en
Québec
Province fr
Québec
Country en
CANADA
Country fr
CANADA
Fiscal year exercice financier
2009
Competition year année de concours
2009
Award amount
15000
Program id
RGPIN
Program nane en
Discovery Grants Program - Individual
Program name fr
Programme de subventions à la découverte - individuelles
Group en
Discovery grants programs
Group fr
Programmes de subventions à la découverte
Committee code
331
Committee name en
Computing and Information Sciences - B
Committee name fr
Informatique - B
Area of application code
1207
Area of application group en
Advancement of knowledge
Area of application group fr
Avancement des connaissances
Area of application en
Information, computer and communication technologies
Area of application fr
Technologie de l'information, des ordinateurs et des réseaux de communications
Research subject code
2708
Research subject group en
Information technology
Research subject group fr
Technologie de l'information
Research subject en
Image processing
Research subject fr
Traitement des images
Partie
1
Nb partie
1
Application title
Content-based video summarization system
Keyword
NA
Application summary
The evolution of video-related information technologies (network bandwidth, personal camera, compression tools, disk capacity, displays, etc.) has pushed video as the primary medium for the capture, storage and presentation of visual information. Video is now replacing still images in many application areas like, for
instance, video surveillance and on-line Web advertising. From small clips to full feature-length films, digital videos are everywhere and often part of a larger multimedia digital library. As a result, the need for tools that can quickly browse and retrieve video content has increased and led to two major topics in modern computer vision: content-based video retrieval and video summarization.
The proposed research program targets video summarization. The objective is to develop and integrate multimodal analysis tools to segment a video into Logical Story Units (LSU) or scenes based on video elements like shots transitions, key-objects, key-faces, key-places as well as audio characteristics. This will be integrated into a LSU-based GUI, rather than the commun shot- or key-frame-based one, that will provide a graphical ToC to the user with the possibility to access parts of the video from it. The GUI will be adaptable to allow user to access video based on his preferences.
