ANCHOR SHOT DETECTION METHOD FOR NEWS VIDEO BROWSING SYSTEM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for automatically detecting an anchor shot in a news video contents. SOLUTION: The anchor shot detection method comprises steps of extracting the anchor shot candidates in news video divided by unit of shot, clustering similar shots among the extracted anchor shot candidates, and deciding an anchor shot by selecting a cluster of the anchor shot among the clusters which the similar shots are grouped. The anchor shot candidates are extracted on the basis of motion information, color variance, length of shot, face detection information, and ratio of not-coded macroblock, similar shots are clustered based on the color similarity of the extracted anchor shot candidates, and the genuine anchor shots are decided by selecting the cluster of anchor shot among the clusters on the basis of the number of shots belonging to the cluster, the existence ratio of article subject character, and the existence ratio of news icon.