Shot Boundary Detection with Spatial-Temporal Convolutional Neural Networks

Nowadays, digital videos have been widely leveraged to record and share various events and people’s daily life. It becomes urgent to provide automatic video semantic analysis and management for convenience. Shot boundary detection (SBD) plays a key fundamental role in various video analysis. Shot boundary detection aims to automatically detecting boundary frames of shots in videos. In this paper, we propose a progressive method for shot boundary detecting with histogram based shot filtering and C3D based gradual shot detection. Abrupt shots were detected firstly for its specialty and help alleviate locating shots across different shots by dividing the whole video into segments. Then, over the segments, gradual shot detection is implemented via a three-dimensional convolutional neural network model, which assign video clips into shot types of normal, dissolve, foi or swipe. Finally, for untrimmed videos, a frame level merging strategy is constructed to help locate the boundary of shots from neighboring frames. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method can effectively detect shots and locate their boundaries.