We discuss the meaning and significance of the video mining problem, and present our work on some aspects of video mining. A simple definition of video mining is unsupervised discovery of patterns in audio-visual content. Such purely unsupervised discovery is readily applicable to video surveillance as well as to consumer video browsing applications. We interpret video mining as content-adaptive or blind content processing, in which the first stage is content characteri
Ajay Divakaran, Koji Miyahara, Kadir A. Peker, Reg