- Title
- Nonparametric Motion Characterization for Robust Classification of Camera Motion Patterns
- Creator
- Duan, Lingyu; Jin, J. S.; Tian, Qi; Xu, Chang Sheng
- Relation
- IEEE Transactions on Multimedia Vol. 8, Issue 2, p. 323-340
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TMM.2005.864344
- Publisher
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2006
- Description
- Motion characterization plays a critical role in video indexing. An effective way of characterizing camera motion facilitates the video representation, indexing and retrieval tasks. This paper describes a novel nonparametric motion representation to achieve an effective and robust recognition of parts of the video in which camera is static, or panning, or tilting, or zooming, etc. This representation employs the mean shift filtering and the vector histograms to produce a compact description of a motion field. The basic idea is to perform spatio-temporal mode-seeking in the motion feature space and use the histograms-based spatial distributions of dominant motion modes to represent a motion field. Unlike most existing approaches, which focus on the estimation of a parametric motion model from a dense optical flow field (OFF) or a block matching-based motion vector field (MVF), the proposed method combines the motion representation and machine learning techniques (e.g., support vector machines) to perform camera motion analysis from the classification point of view. The main motivation lies in the impossibility of uniformly securing a proper parametric assumption in a wide range of video scenarios. The diverse camera shot sizes and frequent occurrences of bad OFF/MVF necessitates a learning mechanism, which can not only capture the domain-independent parametric constraints, but also acquire the domain-dependent knowledge to tolerate the influence of bad OFF/MVF. In order to improve performance, we can use this learning-based method to train enhanced classifiers aiming at a certain context (i.e., shot size, neighbor OFF/MVFs, and video genre). Other visual cues (e.g., dominant color) can also be incorporated for further motion analysis. Our main aim is to use a generic feature space analysis method to explore a flexible OFF/MVF representation in a nonparametric technique, which could be fed into a learning framework to robustly capture the global motion by incorporating the context information. Results on videos with various types of content (23 191 MVFs culled from MPEG-7 dataset, and 20 000 MVFs culled from broadcast tennis, soccer, and basketball videos) are reported to validate the proposed approach.
- Subject
- image classification; image motion analysis; image representation; learning (artificial intelligence); video signal processing; video retrieval
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/26983
- Identifier
- uon:1279
- Identifier
- ISSN:1520-9210
- Rights
- Copyright © 2006 IEEE. Reprinted from IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. This material is posted here with permission of the IEEE. Such permission of the IEEE does not in any way imply IEEE endorsement of any of the University of Newcastle's products or services. Internal or personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution must be obtained from the IEEE by writing to pubs-permissions@ieee.org. By choosing to view this document, you agree to all provisions of the copyright laws protecting it.
- Language
- eng
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