Techniques for movie content analysis and skimming: tutorial and overview on video abstraction techniques

With the proliferation of digital video, video summarization and skimming has become an indispensable tool of any practical video content management system. This paper provides a tutorial on the existing abstraction work for generic videos and presents state-of-the-art techniques for feature film skimming. The paper also describes the authors' recent work on movie skimming using audiovisual tempo analysis and specific cinematic rules. With the maturity of the movie genre classification, content understanding and video abstraction techniques, an automatic movie content analysis system that facilitates navigation, browsing, and search of desired movie content is possible in the near future