A Graph-based Ranking Approach to Extract Key-frames for Static Video Summarization

Abstract: Video abstraction has become one of the efficient approaches to grasp the content of a video without seeing it entirely. Key frame-based static video summarization falls under this category. In this paper, we propose a graph-based approach which summarizes the video with best user satisfaction. We treated each video frame as a node of the graph and assigned a rank to each node by our proposed VidRank algorithm. We developed three different models of VidRank algorithm and performed a comparative study on those models. A comprehensive evaluation of 50 videos from open video database using objective and semi-objective measures indicates the superiority of our static video summary generation method.