Dublin City University at the TRECVid 2008 BBC rushes summarisation task

We describe the video summarisation systems submitted by Dublin City University to the TRECVid 2008 BBC Rushes Summarisation task. We introduce a new approach to redundant video summarisation based on principal component analysis and linear discriminant analysis. The resulting low dimensional representation of each shot offers a simple way to compare and select representative shots of the original video. The final summary is constructed as a dynamic storyboard. Both types of summaries were evaluated and the results are discussed.