News videos anchor person detection by shot clustering

Ping Ji, Liujuan Cao, Xiguang Zhang, Longfei Zhang, Weimin Wu*

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In recent years, extensive research efforts have been dedicated to automatic news content analysis. In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm for anchorperson detection in news video sequences. In this method, the raw news videos are firstly split into shots by a four-threshold method, and the key frames are extracted from each shot. After that, the anchorperson detection is conducted from these key frames by using a clustering-based method based on a statistical distance of Pearson's correlation coefficient. To evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed method, we have conducted experiments on 10 news sequences. In these experiments, the proposed scheme achieves a recall of 0.96 and a precision of 0.97 for anchorperson detection.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)86-99
Number of pages14
JournalNeurocomputing
Volume123
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 10 Jan 2014

Keywords

  • Anchorperson detection
  • Clustering
  • News video analysis
  • Shot detection

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