Large-scale, Fast and Accurate Shot Boundary Detection through Spatio-temporal Convolutional Neural Networks
This work addresses the need for efficient and accurate video pre-processing for video manipulation tasks, representing an incremental improvement over existing techniques.
The paper tackles shot boundary detection in videos by introducing a spatio-temporal CNN approach, achieving up to 11 times faster processing than state-of-the-art methods while outperforming in dissolve detection and showing competitive or improved performance in other transition types.
Shot boundary detection (SBD) is an important pre-processing step for video manipulation. Here, each segment of frames is classified as either sharp, gradual or no transition. Current SBD techniques analyze hand-crafted features and attempt to optimize both detection accuracy and processing speed. However, the heavy computations of optical flow prevents this. To achieve this aim, we present an SBD technique based on spatio-temporal Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). Since current datasets are not large enough to train an accurate SBD CNN, we present a new dataset containing more than 3.5 million frames of sharp and gradual transitions. The transitions are generated synthetically using image compositing models. Our dataset contain additional 70,000 frames of important hard-negative no transitions. We perform the largest evaluation to date for one SBD algorithm, on real and synthetic data, containing more than 4.85 million frames. In comparison to the state of the art, we outperform dissolve gradual detection, generate competitive performance for sharp detections and produce significant improvement in wipes. In addition, we are up to 11 times faster than the state of the art.