A Deep Learning-Based Approach for Camera Motion Classification

Abstract

The automatic estimation of the various types of camera motion (e.g., traveling, panning, rolling, zoom…) that are present in videos represents an important challenge for automatic video indexing. Previous research works are mainly based on optical flow estimation and analysis. In this paper, we propose a different, deep learning-based approach that makes it possible to classify the videos according to the type of camera motion. The proposed method is inspired from action recognition approaches and exploits 3D convolutional neural networks with residual blocks. The performances are objectively evaluated on challenging videos, involving blurry frames, fast/slow motion, poorly textured scenes. The accuracy rates obtained (with an average score of 94%) demonstrate the robustness of the proposed model.