CIVR 2005: Image and Video Retrieval pp 71-81 | Cite as

EMD-Based Video Clip Retrieval by Many-to-Many Matching

  • Yuxin Peng
  • Chong-Wah Ngo
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 3568)

Abstract

This paper presents a new approach for video clip retrieval based onEarth Mover’s Distance (EMD). Instead of imposing one-to-one matching constraint as in [11, 14], our approach allows many-to-many matching methodology and is capable of tolerating errors due to video partitioning and various video editing effects. We formulate clip-based retrieval as a graph matching problem in two stages. In the first stage, to allow the matching between a query and a long video, an online clip segmentation algorithm is employed to rapidly locate candidate clips for similarity measure. In the second stage, a weighted graph is constructed to model the similarity between two clips. EMD is proposed to compute the minimum cost of the weighted graph as the similarity between two clips. Experimental results show that the proposed approach is better than some existing methods in term of ranking capability.

Keywords

Video Clip Weighted Graph Optimal Match Video Database Approximate Match 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Yuxin Peng
    • 1
    • 2
  • Chong-Wah Ngo
    • 2
  1. 1.Institute of Computer Science and TechnologyPeking UniversityBeijingChina
  2. 2.Department of Computer ScienceCity University of Hong KongKowloon, HongKong

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