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This paper describes a tool for browsing video sequences. It is based on an automatic decomposition of the sequence into a number of consecutive shots. For each shot, a representative image is constructed and assigned a hypermedia link to the original video. The images are presented to the user as a document that can be browsed. Selecting an image leads to the playback of the corresponding portion of the video.
While a number of browsers have already been proposed, the novel aspect of our tool is that it is able to perform a hierarchical classification of these shots and to present a structured view of the video sequence. The user can thus get a progressive view to the parts of the video that interest him by moving inside the hierarchical structure. This hierarchical representation is first computed automatically, but it can also he hand-edited so that the user may provide his own structure to the document. The implementation that we propose uses analog video and assumes minimal computing and storage requirements, so that it can be effectively used as a practical system.
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Benedetti, G., Bodin, B., Lhuisset, F., Martineau, O., Merialdo, B. (1996). A structured video browsing tool. In: Bass, L.J., Unger, C. (eds) Engineering for Human-Computer Interaction. EHCI 1995. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34907-7_2
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