Browsing and retrieving video content in a unified framework

In this paper, we first review the recent research progress in video analysis, representation, browsing, and retrieval. Motivated by the mechanism used to access a book's content, we then present novel techniques for constructing video table-of-contents and index to facilitate accessing video's content. We further explore the relationship between video browsing and retrieval and propose a unified framework to incorporate both entities in a seamless way. Preliminary research results justify our proposed framework for providing access to videos based on their content.