This paper summarizes and analyzes the development of video indexing techniques, introduces MPEG standard, discusses the contents that video indexing deals with, for example video indexing, video classification and video abstracting, etc.

• 本文对视频数据索引的研究现状与技术发展进行了综述 ,介绍了MPEG标准 ; 探讨了视频索引所涉及的内容 ,例如 ,视频的标引、分类和摘要等 ;