Natural video browsing

ABSTRACT

In this demonstration, we show a novel system, Video Booklet, which enables nature personal video browsing and searching. Firstly representative thumbnails of video segments are selected and reshaped by a set of pre-trained personalized shape templates, and then printed out on a real booklet. When we want to watch the segment indicated by a certain thumbnail in the booklet, we are able to use camera phones or similar devices to capture the corresponding thumbnail, and send it to a computer via wireless network. Thereafter, the target thumbnail is accurately located by a Self-Trained Active Shape Model algorithm, and then the distortion of the captured image is corrected. Finally the Video Booklet system will automatically find the most similar thumbnail to the corrected one and begin to play the corresponding segment in the video library for us. Thereby, Video Booklet builds a seamless bridge between digital videos and analog albums.

REFERENCES

• 1: T. F. Cootes , C. J. Taylor , D. H. Cooper , J. Graham, Active shape models—their training and application, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, v.61 n.1, p.38-59, Jan. 1995 [doi>10.1006/cviu.1995.1004 ]
• 2: X.-S. Hua, X. Chen, and H.-J. Zhang. Robust video signature based on ordinal measure. In Proceedings of ICIP, Singapore. October 24-27. 2004.
• 3: X.-S. Hua, S. Li, and H.-J. Zhang. Video booklet. In Proceedings of ICME, Amsterdam, Netherlands. July 6-8. 2005.

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.1 Multimedia Information Systems
          Subjects: Video (e.g., tape, disk, DVI)

General Terms:
Design, Experimentation

Keywords:
active shape models, album, video retrieval