Using Color Strings Comparison for Video Frames Retrieval

A practical video frames retrieval scheme is developed to retrieve video frames efficiently. The proposed scheme transfers each video frame to a color string using straightforward rules. Subsequently, using the color strings to compare the images, namely color strings comparison. We succeed in transferring the video frames retrieval problem to strings comparison. Thus the computational complexity is decreased obviously. Our system keeps both advantages of the content based video frames retrieval system (similarity-based retrieval) and a text based video frames retrieval system (very rapid and mature).