In the paper,an improved video shot mutation detection algorithm based on SIFT feature extraction is proposed.Aiming at the problem that the sub-dimension of SIFT algorithm is too high,this paper re-divides the feature point neighborhood based on SIFT algorithm and reduces the feature descriptor sub-dimension by 50%.The experimental results show that the average recall rate of the video shot mutation detection of the improved SIFT algorithm reaches 97.84%,and the precision rate reaches 96.83%,which is 2.05%and 2.38%higher than the literature value respectively.The number of video frames extrac...