Information Technology Journal1812-56381812-5646Asian Network for Scientific Information10.3923/itj.2010.1003.1012HaidarS. ChebaroB. HaidarB. 5201095In the present study, we propose an automatic method for segmenting video material using the comparison matrix. Without a priori information, neither any training phase, the similarity matrices are filtered then regional minimums and maximums are extracted over the line and column projections. Pseudo-homogeneous areas are identified between each pair of regional minimums. The pseudo-homogeneous areas in the resulting matrix are thus the macro-segment video records in question. We experiment our method over a database of short video commercials to illustrate the potential of our approach. An overall evaluation is finally established and given.]]>Adams, B., C. Dorai and S. Venkatesh,20002000pp: 283286Aigrain, P., P. Joly and V. Longueville,19971997pp: 159-173pp: 159-173Ariki, Y. and Y. Saito,19961996pp: 847850Carrive, J., F. Pachet and R. Ronfard,20002000pp: 14001415Collins, J.F. and A.F. Coulson,1990183474487Cooper, M. and J. Foote,20012001pp: 378381Feng, Y., R. Ren and J.M. Jose,20082008pp: 667672Galmar, E., T. Athanasiadis, B. Huet and Y. Avrithis,20082008pp: 574579Gunsel, B., A.M. Ferman and A.M. Tekalp,19987592604Gunsel, B., M. Tekalp and P. Van Beek,199866261280Haidar, S., P. Joly and B. Chebaro,200621747763Haidar, S., P. Joly and B. Chebaro,20052005pp: 307-317pp: 307-317Sickle, J.,19972370388Joly, P. and P. Aigrain,19961996Lienhart, R., S. Pfeier and W. Eelsberg,19991999pp: 685690Merlino, A., D. Morey and M. Maybury,19971997pp: 381391Peyrard, N. and P. Bouthemy,20022002pp: 527536Rui, Y., T. Huang and S. Mehrotra,19997359368Saraceno, C. and R. Leonardi,19971997pp: 25972600Sivaselvan, B. and N.P. Gopalan,2006510431047Yahya, A.A. and A.M. Abdalla,20032154158Yeung, M., B.L. Yeo and B. Liu,19987194109Zhang, H., Y. Gong, S. Smoliar and S. Tan,19941994pp: 4554Haidar, S., P. Joly and B. Chebaro,20044333346Daget, J. and J.R. Durand,1968291111