“Color super-histograms for video representation: preliminary research and findings”

  • ©Jacquelyn A. Martino, Nevenka Dimitrova, Lalitha Agnihotri, and Herman Elenbaas

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    Color super-histograms for video representation: preliminary research and findings

Session/Category Title:   Visualization and Video Analysis


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    A novel method for computing super-histograms to represent video segments. The underlying assumption is that a TV program has a consistent color palette, which can be derived as a family of merged individual-shot histograms.

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