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Evaluation of Automatic Shot Boundary Detection on a Large Video Test Suite 1 1 2 2 Colin O’Toole , Alan Smeaton , Noel Murphy and Sean Marlow 1 2 School of Computer Applications School of Electronic Engineering Dublin City University Glasnevin, Dublin, Ireland. Abstract The challenge facing the indexing of digital video information in order to support browsing and retrieval by users, is to design systems that can accurately and automatically process large amounts of heterogeneous video. The segmentation of video material into shots and scenes is the basic operation in the analysis of video content. This paper presents a detailed evaluation of a histogram-based shot cut detector based on eight hours of TV broadcast video. Our observations are that the selection of similarity thresholds for determining shot boundaries in such broadcast video is difficult and necessitates the development of systems that employ adaptive thresholding in order to address the huge variation of characteristics prevalent in TV broadcast video. 1.0 Introduction The indexing and retrieval of digital video is an active research area in computer science. The increasing availability and use of on-line video has led to a demand for efficient and accurate automated video anal