Multimodal Video Characterization and Summarization

• Main Authors: Smith, Michael A. (Author), Kanade, Takeo (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2005.
• Series: The Kluwer International Series in Video Computing, 9
• Subjects: Computer science.; Multimedia information systems.; Artificial intelligence.; Computer graphics.; Image processing.; Pattern recognition.; Computer Science.; Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics.; Computer Graphics.; Image Processing and Computer Vision.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Multimedia Information Systems.; Pattern Recognition.
• Physical Description: XII, 204 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9780387230085
• ISSN: 1571-5205 ;

Multimodal Video Characterization and Summarization is a valuable research tool for both professionals and academicians working in the video field. This book describes the methodology for using multimodal audio, image, and text technology to characterize video content. This new and groundbreaking science has led to many advances in video understanding, such as the development of a video summary. Applications and methodology for creating video summaries are described, as well as user-studies for evaluation and testing.