Invariant region descriptors for robust shot segmentation

This paper describes a novel method for automatic shot cut detection, based on local region descriptors. We define a new similarity measure for temporally adjacent frames and demonstrate the advantages with accurate shot cut detection. Compared to previous approaches the proposed method is highly robust to camera and object motions and can withstand severe illumination changes and spatial editing. We apply the proposed method to different kinds of video sequences and demonstrate superior performance compared to existing methods.