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Authors: Michael A. Smith, Takeo Kanade
ISBN-13: 9781402074264, ISBN-10: 1402074263
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Date Published: September 2008
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Michael A. Smith

Book Synopsis

Multimodal Video Characterization and Summarization is a valuable research tool for both professionals and academicians working in the video field.

This book describes the methodology for using multimodal audio, image, and text technology to characterize video content. This new and groundbreaking science has led to many advances in video understanding, such as the development of a video summary. Applications and methodology for creating video summaries are described, as well as user-studies for evaluation and testing.

Table of Contents

1Introduction1
2Video structure and terminology17
3Multimodal video characterization61
4Video summarization111
5Visualization techniques149
6Evaluation173

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