Multimodal Video Characterization and Summarization is a valuable
research tool for both professionals and academicians working in the
video field.
This book describes the methodology for using multimodal audio, image,
and text technology to characterize video content. This new and
groundbreaking science has led to many advances in video understanding,
such as the development of a video summary. Applications and methodology
for creating video summaries are described, as well as user-studies for
evaluation and testing.