Tracking users' capture intention: a novel complementary view for home video content analysis

In this paper, we present a novel view to home video content analysis, which aims at tracking the capture intention of camcorder users. Based on the study of intention mechanism in psychology, a set of domain-specific capture intention concepts are defined. A comprehensive and extensible scheme consisting of video structuring, intention oriented feature analysis, as well as intention unit segmentation and classification is proposed to mine the users’ capture intention. Experiments were carried on home video sequences of 90 hours in total, taken by 16 persons in recent 20 years. Both the user study and objective evaluations indicate that our proposed intention-based approach is an effective complement to existing home video content analysis schemes. Categories and Subject Descriptors: H.5.1 [Information Interfaces and Presentation]: Multimedia Information Systems – video; I.2.10 [Artificial Intelligence]: Vision and Scene Understanding – video analysis General Terms: Algorit...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: MM
• Authors: Tao Mei, Xian-Sheng Hua, He-Qin Zhou
• Keywords: Capture Intention, Home Video, MM 2005, Video Content Analysis