Browsing video recordings using movie-in-a-minute

Having entered the terabyte consumer storage era and sailing towards petaand hexa- storage, we still have only adequate tools for browsing megabytes of stored video information. Movie-in-a-minute is a summarization method that generates a short video preview composed of automatically selected portions of a video recording. It aims at conveying key aspects of a program and its story in an efficient and entertaining manner. In doing so, movie-in-a-minute allows easy management of hundreds of hours of stored video programs. In this paper we present an approach to generate movie-in-a-minute previews based on automatic video and audio content analysis. The method has been formalized using a knowledge-explicit approach, implemented and tested as a new feature for consumer digital recorders.