A Review on Shot Boundary Detection

Recent advances in technology have made tremendous amount of multimedia content available. The amount of video is increasing, due to which the systems that improve the access to the video is needed. A current research topic on video includes video abstraction or summarization, video classification, video annotation and content based video retrieval. In all these applications one needs to identify shot and key frames in video which will correctly and briefly indicates the contents of video. This paper presents a brief overview on shot boundary detection and its techniques.