BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.0
ID:: ncstrl.dartmouthcs//TR97-307
ENTRY:: February 20, 1997
ORGANIZATION:: Dartmouth College, Computer Science
TITLE:: Automatic Video Pause Detection Filter
TYPE:: Technical Report (paper)
REVISION:: 1
AUTHOR:: Liu, Xiaowen
AUTHOR:: Owen, Charles B.
AUTHOR:: Makedon, Fillia
DATE:: February 1997
RETRIEVAL:: For a paper copy, email <reports@cs.dartmouth.edu>
RETRIEVAL:: For a paper copy, write to
       Technical Report Librarian
       Department of Computer Science
       Dartmouth College
       6211 Sudikoff Laboratory
       Hanover, NH 03755-3510
       USA
RETRIEVAL:: Compressed Postscript at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR97-307.ps.Z
RETRIEVAL:: PDF at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR97-307.pdf
ABSTRACT:: 
Increasing interest in multimedia research has been drawn upon the
development of video indexing and content-based image retrieval
techniques. In this report, we proposed several pause detection
algorithms, which instead of searching for significant visual
transitions, the algorithms detect significant pauses in video
streams. A realization of the algorithms was implemented using
ImageTcl toolkit developed at Dartmouth Experimental Visualization
Laboratory. In addition to proposing and studying the effectiveness of
the pause detection algorithms, another major goal will be to
incorporate our algorithms into ImageTcl and test the stability and
applicability of the ImageTcl environment. Priliminary experiments
showed relatively good results of our pause detection algorithms.  
END:: ncstrl.dartmouthcs//TR97-307