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+benchmarks/BCC/*.mp4
+*.txt
+benchmarks/RAI/*.mp4
+*.txt
 
 
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diff --git a/benchmarks/README.md b/benchmarks/README.md
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+# Benchmarking PySceneDetect
+This repository benchmarks the performance of PySceneDetect in terms of both latency and accuracy.
+We evaluate it using the standard dataset for video shot detection: [BBC](https://zenodo.org/records/14865504).
+
+## Dataset Download
+### BBC
+```
+# annotation
+wget -O BBC/fixed.zip https://zenodo.org/records/14873790/files/fixed.zip
+unzip BBC/fixed.zip -d BBC
+rm -rf BBC/fixed.zip
+
+# videos
+wget -O BBC/videos.zip https://zenodo.org/records/14873790/files/videos.zip
+unzip BBC/videos.zip -d BBC
+rm -rf BBC/videos.zip
+```
+
+### Evaluation
+To evaluate PySceneDetect on a dataset, run the following command:
+```
+python benchmark.py -d <dataset_name> --detector <detector_name>
+```
+For example, to evaluate ContentDetector on the BBC dataset:
+```
+python evaluate.py -d BBC --detector detect-content
+```
+
+### Result
+The performance is computed as recall, precision, f1, and elapsed time. 
+The following results indicate that ContentDetector achieves the highest performance on the BBC dataset.
+
+|      Detector     | Recall | Precision |   F1  | Elapsed time (second) |
+|:-----------------:|:------:|:---------:|:-----:|:---------------------:|
+|  AdaptiveDetector |  7.80  |   96.18   | 14.44 |         25.75         |
+|  ContentDetector  |  84.52 |   88.77   | 86.59 |         25.50         |
+|    HashDetector   |  8.57  |   80.27   | 15.48 |         23.78         |
+| HistogramDetector |  8.22  |   70.82   | 14.72 |         18.60         |
+| ThresholdDetector |  0.00  |    0.00   |  0.00 |         18.95         |
+
+## Citation
+### BBC
+```
+@InProceedings{bbc_dataset,
+  author    = {Lorenzo Baraldi and Costantino Grana and Rita Cucchiara},
+  title     = {A Deep Siamese Network for Scene Detection in Broadcast Videos},
+  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia},
+  year      = {2015},
+}
+```
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diff --git a/benchmarks/bbc_dataset.py b/benchmarks/bbc_dataset.py
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+import os
+import glob
+
+class BBCDataset:
+    """
+    The BBC Dataset, proposed by Baraldi et al. in A deep siamese network for scene detection in broadcast videos
+    Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.08893
+    The dataset consists of 11 videos (BBC/videos/bbc_01.mp4 to BBC/videos/bbc_11.mp4).
+    The annotated scenes are provided in corresponding files (BBC/fixed/[i]-scenes.txt).
+    """
+    def __init__(self, dataset_dir: str):
+        self._video_files = [file for file in sorted(glob.glob(os.path.join(dataset_dir, 'videos', '*.mp4')))]
+        self._scene_files = [file for file in sorted(glob.glob(os.path.join(dataset_dir, 'fixed', '*-scenes.txt')))]
+        assert (len(self._video_files) == len(self._scene_files))
+        for video_file, scene_file in zip(self._video_files, self._scene_files):
+            video_id = os.path.basename(video_file).replace('bbc_', '').split('.')[0]
+            scene_id = os.path.basename(scene_file).split('-')[0]
+            assert (video_id == scene_id)
+
+    def __getitem__(self, index):
+        video_file = self._video_files[index]
+        scene_file = self._scene_files[index]
+        return video_file, scene_file
+
+    def __len__(self):
+        return len(self._video_files)
diff --git a/benchmarks/benchmark.py b/benchmarks/benchmark.py
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+import time
+import argparse
+from bbc_dataset import BBCDataset
+from evaluator import Evaluator
+
+from tqdm import tqdm
+from scenedetect import detect
+from scenedetect import AdaptiveDetector, ContentDetector, HashDetector, HistogramDetector, ThresholdDetector
+
+def _load_detector(detector_name: str):
+    detector_map = {
+        'detect-adaptive': AdaptiveDetector(),
+        'detect-content': ContentDetector(),
+        'detect-hash': HashDetector(),
+        'detect-hist': HistogramDetector(),
+        'detect-threshold': ThresholdDetector(),
+    }
+    return detector_map[detector_name]
+
+def _detect_scenes(detector, dataset):
+    pred_scenes = {}
+    for video_file, scene_file in tqdm(dataset):
+        start = time.time()
+        pred_scene_list = detect(video_file, detector)
+        elapsed = time.time() - start
+
+        pred_scenes[scene_file] = {
+            'video_file': video_file,
+            'elapsed': elapsed,
+            'pred_scenes': [scene[1].frame_num for scene in pred_scene_list]
+        }
+
+    return pred_scenes
+
+def main(args):
+    dataset = BBCDataset('BBC')
+    detector = _load_detector(args.detector)
+    pred_scenes = _detect_scenes(detector, dataset)
+    evaluator = Evaluator()
+    result = evaluator.evaluate_performance(pred_scenes)
+
+    print('Detector: {} Recall: {:.2f}, Precision: {:.2f}, F1: {:.2f} Elapsed time: {:.2f}'
+          .format(args.detector, result['recall'], result['precision'], result['f1'], result['elapsed']))
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Benchmarking PySceneDetect performance.')
+    parser.add_argument('--detector', type=str, choices=['detect-adaptive', 'detect-content', 'detect-hash', 'detect-hist', 'detect-threshold'], 
+                        default='detect-content', help='Detector name. Implemented detectors are listed: https://www.scenedetect.com/docs/latest/cli.html')
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    main(args)
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diff --git a/benchmarks/evaluator.py b/benchmarks/evaluator.py
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+from statistics import mean
+
+class Evaluator:
+    def __init__(self):
+        pass
+    
+    def _load_scenes(self, scene_filename):
+        with open(scene_filename) as f:
+            gt_scene_list = [x.strip().split('\t')[1] for x in f.readlines()]
+            gt_scene_list = [int(x) + 1 for x in gt_scene_list]
+        return gt_scene_list
+
+    def evaluate_performance(self, pred_scenes):
+        total_correct = 0
+        total_pred = 0
+        total_gt = 0
+
+        for scene_file, pred in pred_scenes.items():
+            gt_scene_list = self._load_scenes(scene_file)
+            pred_list = pred['pred_scenes']
+            total_correct += len(set(pred_list) & set(gt_scene_list))
+            total_pred += len(pred_list)
+            total_gt += len(gt_scene_list)
+
+        recall = total_correct / total_gt
+        precision = total_correct / total_pred
+        f1 = 2 * recall * precision / (recall + precision) if (recall + precision) != 0 else 0
+        avg_elapsed = mean([x['elapsed'] for x in pred_scenes.values()])
+        result = {
+            'recall': recall * 100,
+            'precision': precision * 100,
+            'f1': f1 * 100,
+            'elapsed': avg_elapsed
+        }
+        return result
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