Digital Video Transition Analysis And Detection

This book presents a comprehensive coverage of video transition analysis and detection, which is a critical technology in video indexing embodied in the recent MPEG-7 standard, defining the description interface for multimedia content. It is a timely publication, in that the MPEG-7 standard is driving the explosion of multimedia applications on the Internet. The book outlines a revolutionary system for automatic analysis and detection of transitions, which is not found in any other book.