A Study Of Gradual Transition Detection in Historic Film Material

The detection of gradual transitions focuses on two types ofapproaches: unified approaches, i.e. one detector for all gradualtransition types, and approaches that use specialized detectors foreach gradual transition type. We present an overview on existingmethods and extend an existing unified approach for the detectionof gradual transitions in historic material. In an experimentalstudy we evaluate our approach on complex and low qualityhistoric material as well as on contemporary material from theTRECVid evaluation. Additionally we investigate differentfeatures, feature combinations and fusion strategies. We observethat the historic material requires the use of texture features incontrast to the contemporary material that in most of the casesrequires the use of colour and luminance features.