Music-Guided Video Summarization using Quadratic Assignments

Abstract

This paper aims to automatically generate a summary of an unedited video, guided by an externally provided music-track. The tempo, energy and beats in the music determine the choices and cuts in the video summarization. To solve this challenging task, we model video summarization as a quadratic assignment problem. We assign frames to the summary, using rewards based on frame interestingness, plot coherency, audio-visual match, and cut properties. Experimentally we validate our approach on the SumMe dataset. The results show that our music guided summaries are more appealing, and even outperform the current state-of-the-art summarization methods when evaluated on the F1 measure of precision and recall.