Novel Shot Boundary Detection in News Streams Based on Fuzzy Petri Nets

With the advent of a digital era, people have encountered some difficulty in using and absorbing overwhelming information generated by technological advances in multimedia. Thus, the development of video summarization enables people to catch a general idea about videos in a short time. In this paper, we focus on the shot change, a part of the video summarization, to conduct an experimental sample on news programs. Moreover, a high-level fuzzy Petri net model is presented to describe the frame combination which indicates a shot boundary used for a video frame sequence in order to detect both cut transitions and gradual transitions. This study has used feature functions to estimate the direct shot change in consideration of video shot boundary detection which adopts the HLFPN model to find a threshold value. The experimental results manifest that the proposed system saves a lot of time and reduces the occurrence of improper shot changes caused by the motions of objects and cameras when comparing the proposed approach with other existing ones.