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An Approach of Commercials Detection Based on Audio-match

  

  1.   (1. School of Computer Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 201203, China;
    2. Shanghai OCN Co., Ltd., Shanghai 201203, China)
  • Received:2013-11-25 Online:2014-02-14 Published:2014-02-14

Abstract: Commercials detection is to extract advertising sequence out of TV shows automatically. In traditional ways, it adopted algorithm based on computer vision technology framework to detect advertisement in terms of video content. But it wouldn’t meet the demands on performance or efficiency for commercial usage. The algorithm described here used only audio information for detection. It first extracted original audio information from video, then used short-time Fourier transform to transform it into a spectrogram. And it applied binary threshold with a set of pre-boosting filters to get local feature descriptors. During the detect phase, it obtained descriptors in the same methods described above, and detected results in offline descriptor library. Audio-based detection algorithm for commercials detection had smaller storage, higher accuracy, and better real-time. Experiments showed that this algorithm could significantly improve robustness and performance of commercials detection systems, and can be applied in reality.

Key words: commercials detection, audio-match, spectrogram, Haar-like feature, feature descriptor, bounding point, smooth

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