Download or read book Multimodal Video Characterization and Summarization written by Michael A. Smith and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-12-17 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.