A method and apparatus to detect transition effects are described. A method comprises deriving at least one frame-based video stream, each video stream forms a time series scaled to form a temporal time series pyramid. A fixed-size window slides over the time series. Each fixed-sized time series window...http://www.google.com/patents/US20020126224?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US20020126224 - System for detection of transition and special effects in video