Jason Tackaberry wrote: > On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 12:37 +0200, Duncan Webb wrote: >> There is an interesting paper, not about ads but about finding cuts in >> news streams, possible the same system could be used to find ads. >> >> http://www2006.org/programme/files/pdf/p52.pdf > > Did you just get back on topic? I'm all confused.
After breaking my sides laughing, I do love marketing speak, I just thought it may be interesting. > :) > > I skimmed the paper but it seemed pretty light on details. I haven't > really been following the approaches for commercial detection, but I > always assumed I would implement it like this: > > * Mark video file into potential commercial boundaries, using: > * Black (dark) frame detection > * Sudden scene changes accompanied by some noticeable > difference in volume. If we use a 2-pass approach, we > can compute the median volume and then mark amplitude > variances (with some threshold to be determined > empirically) from the median. > * Where the space between two boundaries is called a gap, look for > groups of gaps where each gap is fairly close to 15, 30, or 60 > seconds. If there are 3 or more of these gaps, then assume a > block of commercials. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
