Publisher Summary
This chapter reviews video summarization, browsing, and retrieval in different applications. These applications are grouped into three categories: consumer video, image/video databases management, and surveillance. For each category, some of the exemplar applications are also listed. Consumer electronic devices with content analysis technologies enable the end user to browse the recorded content in efficient ways. Content-based image/video retrieval solves the difficulties faced by text-based image retrieval. Instead of being manually annotated by text-based key words, images are indexed by their own visual content, such as color or texture. This chapter also reviews the limitations of the video summarization, browsing, and retrieval technologies. It points out the challenges of the current video summarization, browsing, and retrieval technology. The technology has evolved from laboratory research to many small, medium, or large-scale commercial deployments. At present, it is successful in small or medium-scale applications such as highlight generation for a particular sport, but still faces great technical challenges for large-scale deployments such as airport security and general surveillance.