I just want to take a moment to add that I love this life called Freevo. This thread coming together + this group = rock!
Joe "Drey crits ribeye for 350 damage." Quoting Duncan Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
