Scalable shot boundary detection

摘要

In a Content-based Video Retrieval system, the shot boundary detection is an unavoidable stage. Such a high demanding task needs a deep study from a computational point of view to allow finding suitable optimization strategies. This paper presents different strategies implemented on both a shared-memory symmetric multiprocessor and a Beowulf cluster, and the evaluation of two different programming paradigms: shared-memory and message passing. Several approaches for video segmentation as well as data access are tested in the experiments that also consider load balancing issues.