A novel scene change detection algorithm based on the 3D wavelet transform

This paper proposes a novel scene change detection algorithm based on the 3D wavelet transform. In scene change including cut, dissolve and fade, the frames have particular temporal and spatial layouts. The dissolve and the fade have strong temporal and spatial correlation; on the contract the correlation of the cut is weak. The 3D wavelet transform can effectively express the correlation of the several successive frames since the low-frequency and high-frequency component coefficients have the proper statistics regularities which can effectively identify the shot transitions. Three features are computed to describe the correlation of the shot transitions, which are input to support vector machines for scene change detection. Experimental results show that the method is effective for the gradual shot transition detection.