Keyframe extraction using Pearson correlation coefficient and color moments

Keyframe extraction plays a significant role in wide variety of real-time video processing applications such as video summarization, video management and retrieval, etc. A keyframe captures the whole content of its shot and does not contain any redundant information. The keyframe extraction algorithms are facing challenges due to different visual characteristics in videos of different categories. Therefore, a single feature is not enough to capture visual characteristics of a variety of videos. In order to tackle this problem, we propose an approach of keyframe extraction that uses hybridization of features. In the present article, we propose a novel shot detection-based keyframe extraction algorithm based on combination of two features: one is Pearson correlation coefficient (PCC) and other is color moments (CM). The linear transformation invariance property of PCC facilitates the proposed algorithm to work well under varying lighting conditions. On the other hand, the scale and rotation invariance properties of color moments are beneficial for representation of complex objects that may be present in different poses and orientations. These sustained reasons support the combination of these two features, which brings significant benefits for keyframe extraction in the proposed method. The proposed method detects shot boundaries by employing combo feature set (PCC and CM). From each shot, the frame with highest mean and standard deviation is selected as keyframe. Furthermore, another important contribution is that we developed a new dataset by collecting the videos of different categories such as movies, news, serials, animations and personal interviews and made it available online. The proposed method is experimented on three datasets: two publicly available datasets and one dataset developed by us. The performance of the proposed method on these datasets has been evaluated on the basis of different evaluation parameters: figure of merit, detection percentage, accuracy, and missing factor. Principal advantage of proposed work lies in the fact that it is capable to detect both the abrupt and gradual shot transitions. In real-time videos, it is common to have abrupt and small transitions. The experimental results show the superior performance of the proposed method over the other state-of-the-art methods.