Detection of Gradual Transition in Videos: Approaches and Applications

During video editing, the shots composing the video are coalesced together by different types of transition effects. These editing effects are classified into abrupt and gradual changes, based on the inherent nature of these transitions. In abrupt transitions, there is an instantaneous change in the visual content of two consecutive frames. Gradual transitions are characterized by a slow and continuous change in the visual contents occurring between two shots. In this chapter, the challenges faced in this field along with an overview of the different approaches are presented. Also, a novel method for detection of dissolve transitions using a two-phased approach is enumerated. The first phase deals with detection of candidate dissolves by identifying parabolic patterns in the mean fuzzy entropy of the frames. In the second phase, an ensemble of four parameters is used to design a filter which eliminates candidates based on thresholds set for each of the four stages of filtration. The experimental results show a marked improvement over other existing methods.