Interactive Visualization Tool with Graphic Table of Video Contents

We present an interactive visualization, called table of video contents (TOVC), for browsing structured TV programs such as news, magazines or sports. In these telecasts, getting a good segmentation can be very time-consuming, especially in an annotating context. This visualization, connected with a classical media player, offers a very handy video browser. This system allows a global overview by showing the temporal structure and by giving some semantic information. The drawn structure enables a non linear video access by suggesting relevant frames. The TOVC is created from a graphic framework designed for computing similarities on visual content, and displaying the associated proximities in a 2D map with graph representation. TOVC is one of its first applications and shows interesting capabilities.

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