Indexing Video Summaries For Quick Video Browsing

Multimedia data are used in many fields. The problem is how to manipulate the large quantity of these data. One of the proposed solutions is an intelligent video summarization system. Summarizing a video consists in providing another version that contains pertinent and important items. The most popular type of summary is the pictorial summary. We propose in this chapter to index pictorial summaries in order to accelerate the browsing operation of video archives. The chapter presents a conception of a digital video archive that offers three access levels making easier the search for video sequences. The first access level offers to the user a full access for the whole archive. The second access level allows to the user to browse video archive by consulting video summaries. We contribute by adding a third access level that accelerates the archive browsing by adding an indexing subsystem, which operates on video summaries. We propose to index video summaries to accelerate the research of desired sequences. We treat the case of news broadcast video