MoCA Project: Last edited 04.07.1998, Author: Rainer Lienhart

Automatic Movie Content Analysis    

fadedet

Description

Detects and localizes fades

Options

-videoDir path to movie required
-videoName name of video file required
-fadedb path to fade database (i.e. place where the results will be stored)
default: <video Dir>/measurements/fadeDetection
optional
-from number of first frame of search range
default: first video frame 
optional
-to number of last frame of search range
default: last video frame
optional
-mlen minimal required length of a fade (in frames)
default: 10
optional
-mcorr minimal required correlation
default: 0.9
optional
-msigma maximal allowed standard deviation of the pixels' color values in the first/last monochrome frame of a fade
default: 10
optional
 

Example

fadedet -videoDir /opt/Movies/ForrestGump/ -videoName ForrestGump.mpg 

As a result two file will be generated: /opt/Movies/ForrestGump/measurements/fadeDetection/fadeDetection and /opt/Movies/ForrestGump/measurements/fadeDetection/fadeDetection.range. For your purpose fadeDetection can be deleted. fadeDetection.range contains all you need. It is a ASCII file of the form 

   1       200000
   Fade in 30      63
   Fade in 1116     1136
   Fade out 3243     3291
   ....
Each text line but the first specifies the type and range of a fade. The first text line gives the number of the first and last frame of the search range. 
 
 
© 1998  Rainer Lienhart@informatik.uni-mannheim.de