Statistical motion-based video indexing and retrieval

International audienceWe propose an original approach for the characterization of video dynamic content with a view to supplying new functionalities for motion-based video indexing and retrieval with query by example. We have designed a statistical framework for motion content description without any prior motion segmentation, and for motion-based video classification and retrieval. Contrary to other proposed methods, we do not extract from a given video sequence a set of motion features but we identify a global probabilistic model, expressed as a temporal Gibbs random field. This leads to define an efficient statistical motion-based similarity measure, relying on the computation of conditional likelihoods, to discriminate various motion contents. We have carried out experiments on a set of 100 video sequences, representative of various motion situations (temporal textures as fire and crowd motions, sport videos, car sequences, low motion activity examples