As a brief representation of video content

video summarization can effectively assist users’ browsing and organizing video clips. This paper presents a novel method to generate video summarization based on sketches. Based on the result of video content analysis

this method visualizes video’s main content

taking advantages of sketches’ efficiency and succinctness. Firstly

we extract semantic features and key frames from the video. Secondly

user interaction is adopted to generate sketches from the key frames. Finally

the layout is arranged to get the final summarization result. Experiment result shows that the method can represent the main objects and main events of video materials

and has a quite high user satisfaction.