An Automatic Television Stream Structuring System For Television Archives Holders

摘要

Holders of extensive television archives have to describe television streams which are composed of various telecasts. The first step to this description is to break the stream into small logical units like telecasts or advertisements in order to describe each of them separately. In this article we focus on the television stream structuring which consists in finding automatically the beginning and end of the various telecasts. Since program guides do not include the real content of television streams, we propose an approach based on the modeling of television schedules. We aim for predicting all the possible television schedules for a particular day, so that the automatic system then needs only a few detections to obtain the accurate boundaries of each part of the stream.