SCENE-BASED PEOPLE METERING FOR AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT

摘要

Scene-based people metering for audience measurement is disclosed. Example methods disclosed herein include grouping successive image frames depicting a location of a media presentation to form a sequence of scenes, respective scenes including respective groups of the image frames. Such example methods also include grouping matching scenes into respective scene clusters having respective sizes, the scene clusters being represented by respective key frames. Such example methods further include assigning respective ranks to the key frames of the respective scene clusters, the respective ranks being determined based on the respective sizes of the scene clusters. Such example methods additionally include processing the key frames in accordance with the respective ranks to monitor an audience of the media presentation.

主权项

1. A method to monitor an audience of a media presentation, the method comprising:
grouping successive image frames depicting a location of the media presentation to form a sequence of scenes, respective scenes including respective groups of the image frames; grouping matching scenes into respective scene clusters having respective sizes, the scene clusters being represented by respective key frames; assigning respective ranks to the key frames of the respective scene clusters, the respective ranks being determined based on the respective sizes of the scene clusters; and processing the key frames in accordance with the respective ranks to monitor the audience of the media presentation.