Identification of successive correlated camera shots using audio and video information

Effective creation and utilization of large digital multimedia libraries involves the application of multimedia processing techniques to organize, condense and index media for intelligent searching and selective retrieval. The segmentation of video sequences into scenes and the characterization of each scene has been suggested as a technique for organizing video information. As human beings use both auditory and visual systems to perceive the semantics of audio-visual sources, the analysis of the associated audio signal is shown to serve as a support for organizing video information.