Performance characterization of video-shot-change detection methods

A number of automated shot-change detection methods for indexing a video se quence to facilitate browsing and retrieval have been proposed in recent ye ars. Many of these methods use color histograms or features computed from b lock motion or compression parameters to compute frame differences. It is i mportant to evaluate and characterize their performance so as to deliver a single set of algorithms that may be used by other researchers for indexing video databases. We present the results of a performance evaluation and ch aracterization of a number of shot-change detection methods that use color histograms, block motion matching, or MPEG compressed data.