Camera Movement Classification in Historical Footage: A Comparative Study of Deep Video Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.14713v1
• Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 14:11:52 GMT
• Title: Camera Movement Classification in Historical Footage: A Comparative Study of Deep Video Models
• Authors: Tingyu Lin, Armin Dadras, Florian Kleber, Robert Sablatnig,
• Abstract summary: This paper presents the first systematic evaluation of deep video CMC models on archival film material.<n>Five standard video classification models are assessed on the HISTORIAN dataset, which includes expert-annotated World War II footage.<n>The best-performing model, Video Swin Transformer, achieves 80.25% accuracy, showing strong convergence despite limited training data.
• Score: 1.2875548392688383
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Camera movement conveys spatial and narrative information essential for understanding video content. While recent camera movement classification (CMC) methods perform well on modern datasets, their generalization to historical footage remains unexplored. This paper presents the first systematic evaluation of deep video CMC models on archival film material. We summarize representative methods and datasets, highlighting differences in model design and label definitions. Five standard video classification models are assessed on the HISTORIAN dataset, which includes expert-annotated World War II footage. The best-performing model, Video Swin Transformer, achieves 80.25% accuracy, showing strong convergence despite limited training data. Our findings highlight the challenges and potential of adapting existing models to low-quality video and motivate future work combining diverse input modalities and temporal architectures.

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