The Cut Detection Issue in the Animation Movie Domain

— In this paper we are proposing an improved cut detection algorithm adapted to the animation movies domain. A cut is the direct concatenation of two different shots and produces an important visual discontinuity in the video stream. As color is one major feature of the animation movies (each movie has its own particular color palette) the proposed approach performs by thresholding the distance values obtained between frame color histograms. To overcome the difficulty raised by the peculiarity of the animation movies several improvements have been adopted. The frames are divided intro quadrants to reduce the influence of the entering/exiting objects. The second order derivative is used to reduce the influence of the fast object/camera motions. For the frame classification, an automatic threshold estimation is proposed. Moreover, to reduce the false detections, we are proposing an algorithm to detect a particular color effect, named ”short color changes” (i.e. lightnings, expl...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2007
• Where: JMM2
• Authors: Bogdan Ionescu, Patrick Lambert, Didier Coquin, Vasile Buzuloiu
• Keywords: Animation Movies, Color, Cut Detection Algorithm, JMM2 2007