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Multimodal Video Characterization and Summarization

  • Unlike other texts, this book condenses the description of multimodal technologies and focuses more on their integration
  • There is no book that provides the same level of detail and experimentation in the area of video characterization
  • No other book in this field contains a detailed description of user-studies and evaluations for video characterization and summarization

Part of the book series: The International Series in Video Computing (VICO, volume 9)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. Introduction

    Pages 1-16
  3. Video Summarization

    Pages 111-148
  4. Visualization Techniques

    • Michael G. Christel
    Pages 149-172
  5. Evaluation

    Pages 173-196
  6. Conclusions

    Pages 197-200
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 201-204

About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • AVA Media Systems, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

    Michael A. Smith

  • Carnegie Mellon University, USA

    Takeo Kanade

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