Personalized Video Summarization Using Importance Score

In this paper, we propose video summarization using reinforcement learning. The importance score of each frame in a video is calculated from the user's actions in handling similar previous frames; if such frames were watched rather than skipped, a high score is assigned. To calculate the score, instead of using raw feature vectors extracted from images, we use feature vectors projected on eigenspace: as a result, we can deal with the features comprehensively. We also give an algorithm that uses the reinforcement learning method to create a personalized video summary. The summarization algorithm is applied to a soccer video to confirm its effectiveness.

By: Ken Masumitsu, Tomio Echigo

Published in: The Transactions of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers(in Japanese), volume J84-D2, (no 8), pages 1848-1855 in 1999

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