Real Time Commercials Detection in Television (TV) Program

Abstract:  We explained here the real-time commercial detection in recorded Television (TV) program. TV commercials have become an inescapable part of modern life, significantly influencing our work habits and other aspects of life. The commercial can be interpreted as a special TV program which attempts to communicate up-to-date “product” information to a tremendous number of consumers.  We are developing a system “Automatic Switching of Channels between Commercial Breaks” in which we give a solution for commercial block detection by using a technique like BSM.[2] The purpose is to eliminate commercials from their recordings to watch their recorded television shows without the annoyance of commercials by using the methods like Block based background subtraction image followed by frame retrieval, color conversion, frame comparison. After detection of the commercial break the channel automatically switches to next channel.

Keywords:  Automatic Switching, Commercial Breaks, Frame Extraction, Block-based background subtraction image, Break Detection.