Structured and content-based video browsing

We argue the importance of content-based video browsing and present a set of power tools for video browsing. We propose a content representation scheme that captures both structure and visual content of video to support content-based video browsing. To extract video structure and content primitives and the visual abstraction needed by the representation scheme, a set of robust algorithms for video parsing, abstraction and clustering have been developed and is presented in this paper.