Building a video table of contents (TOC) and video highlights to enable end users to filter out all this data and find what they want, when they want is very important. The authors have developed a cohesive way to make a table of video content, video highlights, and video indices that serve to make effective use of applications in consumer and surveillance video applications. Applications such as event detection in elevator surveillance, highlight extraction from sports video, and image and video database management are considered within the proposed framework. * Offering the latest in cutting edge research and applications in video surveillance and consumer * Presentation of a novel integrated framework aimed at successfully sifting through an abundance of footage gathered every day in shopping malls, airports, and other commercial facilities * Clearly written by leading contributors in the signal processing industry with the instructions step-by-step video to build TOC and index