Digital Video Library

In this paper, an overview of the problems associated with organizing searches of video data and the currently available methods for handling them are presented. A proposal for a project to create a digital video library is reported. Techniques for providing a user with the facility to formulate queries on the content of video material are studied. Content is conveyed in the narrative and in the image. Image properties are both simple computed visual features (like color histogram, texture measures, and motion parameters) and domain objects. The system will be based on collaborative using of combined source information and on image processing techniques developed for visual features computing and for domain object detection. Our approach to object detection in video infers the extension of the detection methods are already known for still images by taking into consideration dynamic information not available in still images.