Motion characterization from temporal cooccurrences of local motion-based measures for video indexing

This paper describes an original approach for motion interpretation with a view to content-based video indexing. We exploit a statistical analysis of the temporal distribution of appropriate local motion-based measures to perform a global motion characterization. We consider motion features extracted from temporal cooccurrence matrices, and related to properties of homogeneity, acceleration or complexity. Results on various real video sequences are reported and provide a first validation of the approach.

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