| Conference/Proceedings | IEEE 7th International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2006) |
| Start date | 09.07.2006 |
| End date | 12.07.2006 |
| Address | Toronto, Canada |
| Author(s) | Ronald Glasberg, Cengiz Tas, Thomas Sikora |
| Title | Recognizing Commercials in Real-Time using three Visual Descriptors and a Decision-Tree |
| Abstract | We present a new approach for classifying mpeg-2 video sequences as "commercial" or "non-commercial" by analyzing specific color, texture and motion features of consecutive frames in real-time. This is part of the well-known video-genre-classification problem, where popular TV-broadcast genres like cartoon, commercial, music, news and sports are studied. Such applications have also been discussed in the context of MPEG-7. In our method the extracted features from three visual descriptors are logically combined using a decision tree to produce a reliable recognition. The results demonstrate a high identification rate based on a large collection of 200 representative video sequences (40 "commercials" and 4*40 "non-commercials") gathered from free digital TV-broadcasting in Germany. |
| Key words | Commercial Detection, Video Descriptors, Separating Block Descriptor, Static Area Descriptor, Decision Tree |
| DOI | 10.1109/ICME.2006.262822 |