Automatically generating summaries for musical video

In this paper, we propose a novel approach to automatically summarize musical videos. The proposed summarization scheme is different from the current methods used for video summarization. The musical video is separated into the musical and visual tracks. A music summary is created by analyzing the music content based on music features, adaptive clustering algorithm and musical domain knowledge. Then, shots are detected and clustered in the visual track. Finally, the music video summary is created by aligning the music summary and clustered video shots. Subjective studies by experienced users have been conducted to evaluate the quality of summarization. The experiments on different genres of musical video and comparisons with the summaries only based on music track and video track indicate that the results of summarization using proposed method are significant and effective to help realize user's expectation.