Semantic Analysis for Automatic Event Recognition and Segmentation of Wedding Ceremony Videos

Wedding is one of the most important ceremonies in our lives. It symbolizes the birth and creation of a new family. In this paper, we present a system for automatically segmenting a wedding ceremony video into a sequence of recognizable wedding events, e.g. the couple's wedding kiss. Our goal is to develop an automatic tool that helps users to efficiently organize, search, and retrieve his/her treasured wedding memories. Furthermore, the obtained event descriptions could benefit and complement the current research in semantic video understanding. Based on the knowledge of wedding customs, a set of audiovisual features, relating to the wedding contexts of speech/music types, applause activities, picture-taking activities, and leading roles, are exploited to build statistical models for each wedding event. Thirteen wedding events are then recognized by a hidden Markov model, which takes into account both the fitness of observed features and the temporal rationality of event ordering...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: TCSV
• Authors: Wen-Huang Cheng, Yung-Yu Chuang, Yin-Tzu Lin, Chi-Chang Hsieh, Shao-Yen Fang, Bing-Yu Chen, Ja-Ling Wu
• Keywords: Recognizable Wedding Events, TCSV 2008, Wedding, Wedding Events