Detecting Video Shot Boundaries by Modified Tomography

Abstract

Videos are large volume objects. They are used for variety of applications in our day-to-day life. Manual operations on video are inconvenient. Hence an automatic system is required to analyse the video content. The first and most important step in any video processing application is shot boundary detection. We propose a novel and very simple approach for Shot Boundary Detection (SBD). This work has lesser complexity compared to existing methods. We use a technique called Computed Tomography for SBD. The method can be applied to any type of videos such as home, surveillance, sports or entertainment videos. The result of our work shows the excellence of the technique in SBD.