Video abstraction, high level video segmentation, video indexing, video summarization and video retrieval needs a basic step of detection of shot boundaries. Therefore detection of shot boundaries is prerequisite for revealing content of higher level video structure. There are various applications where shot boundary detection automation can be used such as Geographical Information System (GIS), restoration of video, multimedia news, digital libraries, telelearning, interactive display. There are some issues that still need to be addressed by the researchers to resolve. The disturbance caused...