Reconstructed key frame and object motion based video retrieval

This paper proposes a video retrieval scheme which can retrieve desired video clips from video databases using color and object motion. The retrieval method includes two steps. In the first step, get the Intra picture frames (I-frames) set from the query MPEG video and reconstruct the key frame of the video based on the set. Then, the video retrieval equals to the retrieval of the reconstructed key frame(R-key frame) and can be easily performed according the methods of content based image retrieval. The second step, the local object motion information that is local motion vector field, is extracted from the video clips set which is the result of the first step, and the final similarity of videos is measured based on the constructed directional histogram. Experimental results show that the proposed two-step retrieval method performed excellently for video retrieval.