A study of the color-structure descriptor for shot boundary detection

This paper focus on the study of the color structure descriptor (CSD) for shot boundary detection in video sequences. We interest in the validation and the optimisation of this descriptor in the aim of its real time implementa- tion on hardware architecture. In this context, the CSD was applied for 256 and 32 quantification levels in the HMMD color space. The use of a lower number of quantification levels can assure a better computing performance while preserving a satisfactory level of accuracy in term of shot boundary de- tection rate. This can be useful for constrained applications and platforms. An example of hardware implementation architecture of the CSD is also presented in this paper.