VidSeg: Video Segmentation

Video segmentation: detection of cuts, dissolves, monochrome frames, silences and aspect ratio changes (4/3 & 16/9)

Target users and customers

The targeted users and customers are the multimedia industry actors, and all academic or industrial laboratories interested in video analysis.

Application sectors

Multimedia document processing
Video indexing

Description:

VidSeg is a software tool dedicated to video segmentation. It detects cuts and dissolves transitions in a video, along with additional information: monochrome frames, silences and aspect ratio modifications (from 4/3 to 16/9 or inversely).

The VidSeg software relies on the FFMPEG libraries for video decoding. Results are output in an XML format file as shown in figure 1 below.

VidSeg was developed at Irisa/INRIA Rennes by the Texmex team.
The VidSeg authors are: Manolis Delakis, Sébastien Campion.

Technical requirements:

PC with Unix/Linux OS
This software requires the FFMPEG [1] software installed on the system, as a third party library.

[1] http://ffmpeg.org/

Conditions for access and use:

VidSeg is a software that has been developed at Irisa/Inria-Rennes and is the property of Inria. It is registered at the Agency for Program Protection (APP) in France under the references:
* n°IDDN.FR.001.250009.000.S.P.2009.000.40000

VidSeg can be supplied under license on a case-by-case basis.