Video Analysis and Summarization
Video Analysis and Summarization is a research topic within Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Science Explorer counts 30k research works in it since 1951. 17.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers focuses on the automatic analysis and summarization of video content, covering topics such as shot boundary detection, user attention models, semantic analysis, key frame extraction, event detection, and the application of these techniques to soccer videos. It also explores the use of the MPEG-7 standard and content-based retrieval methods in video summarization.
- Video Summarization
- Content-Based Retrieval
- Shot Boundary Detection
- User Attention Model
- MPEG-7 Standard
- Semantic Analysis
- Key Frame Extraction
- Event Detection
- Soccer Video
- Multimodal Indexing
- Research works
- 30k fractional, since 1951
- In the world top 10%
- 5.2k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 17.1% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- -8% the tick is no change
Which countries lead Video Analysis and Summarization research?
By volume, China and India publish the most (1.9k and 670 works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 China 1.9k works
- 2 India 670 works
- 3 United States 511 works
- 4 Japan 267 works
- 5 South Korea 166 works
- 6 United Kingdom 125 works
- 7 Türkiye 122 works
- 8 Germany 115 works
- 9 Canada 85 works
- 10 Indonesia 80 works
How concentrated that is
The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which institutions lead Video Analysis and Summarization research?
By volume in 2022–2025, University of Science and Technology of China publishes the most Video Analysis and Summarization research, followed by Peking University and Tsinghua University.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 36 works
- 2 Peking UniversityChina 35 works
- 3 Tsinghua UniversityChina 35 works
- 4 Zhejiang UniversityChina 34 works
- 5 Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 28 works
- 6 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 26 works
- 7 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 25 works
- 8 Fudan UniversityChina 25 works
- 9 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 24 works
- 10 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 21 works
Who are the leading researchers in Video Analysis and Summarization?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Video Analysis and Summarization include Andrew Zisserman, Wei Liu and Luc Van Gool.
- 1 Andrew Zisserman United Kingdom 25k citations
- 2 Wei Liu China 9.7k citations
- 3 Luc Van Gool Switzerland 8.5k citations
- 4 Xiaoou Tang Hong Kong 8k citations
- 5 Ming–Hsuan Yang United States 7.4k citations
- 6 Thomas S. Huang United States 7.4k citations
- 7 Bernt Schiele Germany 6.9k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Video Analysis and Summarization research done?
The largest centres of Video Analysis and Summarization research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Tokyo (Japan) and Wuhan (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in San Jose.
Largest cities, 2022–2025
Where it is the local speciality
- San JoseUS · 21.1 works13×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Video Analysis and Summarization than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Video Analysis and Summarization?
Among universities, judged by research, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, PES University and Renmin University of China score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.
One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyHong Kong | 63.9 | 43.1% | 6.3× | 12 | +70.1% |
| 2 | PES UniversityIndia | 55.8 | 9.2% | 25.9× | 18 | +290.0% |
| 3 | Renmin University of ChinaChina | 55.3 | 25.0% | 8.6× | 14 | +99.9% |
| 4 | Peking UniversityChina | 51.3 | 28.3% | 4.5× | 35 | -14.9% |
| 5 | University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina | 49.8 | 19.5% | 5.9× | 36 | -4.3% |
| 6 | Amrita Vishwa VidyapeethamIndia | 49.8 | 11.4% | 6.9× | 19 | +222.7% |
| 7 | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and TechnologySouth Korea | 49.0 | 18.9% | 8.4× | 20 | -9.3% |
| 8 | Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore | 48.0 | 34.1% | 4.1× | 17 | -36.5% |
| 9 | Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina | 47.8 | 11.3% | 9.0× | 28 | -21.2% |
| 10 | Tsinghua UniversityChina | 47.1 | 26.9% | 3.5× | 34 | -7.7% |
Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.
Is Video Analysis and Summarization research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 8% lower than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2024.
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.
Which topics inside it are moving
Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.