Abstract: “video shot boundary detection, which segments a video by detecting boundaries between camera shots, is usually the first and important step for content-based video retrieval. This paper present block based χ2 histogram method which is effective in detecting abrupt transitions and gradual transitions, respectively. A new pixel intensity based method is proposed for Fade transition detection.”

Keywords: Abrupt transition,Automatic Thresold,Gradual transition,Shot boundary detection, χ 2 histogram