TY - JFULL AU - Mona A. Fouad and Fatma M. Bayoumi and Hoda M. Onsi and Mohamed G. Darwish PY - 2008/12/ TI - Shot Transition Detection with Minimal Decoding of MPEG Video Streams T2 - International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering SP - 3875 EP - 3879 VL - 2 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/15988 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 23, 2008 N2 - Digital libraries become more and more necessary in order to support users with powerful and easy-to-use tools for searching, browsing and retrieving media information. The starting point for these tasks is the segmentation of video content into shots. To segment MPEG video streams into shots, a fully automatic procedure to detect both abrupt and gradual transitions (dissolve and fade-groups) with minimal decoding in real time is developed in this study. Each was explored through two phases: macro-block type's analysis in B-frames, and on-demand intensity information analysis. The experimental results show remarkable performance in detecting gradual transitions of some kinds of input data and comparable results of the rest of the examined video streams. Almost all abrupt transitions could be detected with very few false positive alarms. ER -