A TV DRAMA DIGESTING METHOD
BASED ON THE MENTAL SIDE
OF THE CONTENT

ABSTRACT

The digital broadcast and the home server will provide huge amount of video resources to the consumer. Then in this study, the method to summarise TV drama based on the media track structure of the video is proposed in order to provide the video summarization technology which enables the audience to overview and select the most favorite TV program fast and easily. In past studies, video summarisation has almost been achieved by exploiting the physical structure of video or tracking objects in the video. In this work, the importance of the mental side of video content in the case of TV drama is mentioned and the new video summarization method based on it is proposed. It relates the media structure which consists of audio & visual tracks (actor's utterances, BGM, background sound, effect sounds and shots) to the psychological unfolding of video content, and enables to extract the psychologically important portion computationally.

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   ``A TV drama digesting method based on the mental side of the content'',
   IEEE Proceedings of ICCE 2000, THPM17.2, June 2000.
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