Video object extraction and representation : theory and applications / by I-Jong Lin, S.Y. Kung.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lin, I-Jong, 1971-

Contributor:

Kung, S. Y. (Sun Yuan)

Series:

Kluwer international series in engineering and computer science ; SECS 584.

The Kluwer international series in engineering and computer science ; SECS 584

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Digital video.

MPEG (Video coding standard).

Image processing--Digital techniques.

Image processing.

Directed graphs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2002.

Place of Publication:

Boston, Mass. : Kluwer Academic Publisher, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. ” - Henry David Thoreau, Walden Although engineering is a study entrenched firmly in belief of pr- matism, I have always believed its impact need not be limited to pr- matism. Pragmatism is not the boundaries that define engineering, just the (sometimes unforgiving) rules by which we sight our goals. This book studies two major problems of content-based video proce- ing for a media-based technology: Video Object Plane (VOP) Extr- tion and Representation, in support of the MPEG-4 and MPEG-7 video standards, respectively. After reviewing relevant image and video p- cessing techniques, we introduce the concept of Voronoi Ordered Spaces for both VOP extraction and representation to integrate shape infor- tion into low-level optimization algorithms and to derive robust shape descriptors, respectively. We implement a video object segmentation system with a novel surface optimization scheme that integrates Voronoi Ordered Spaces with existing techniques to balance visual information against predictions of models of a priori information. With these VOPs, we have explicit forms of video objects that give users the ability to - dress and manipulate video content. We outline a general methodology of robust data representation and comparison through the concept of complex partitioning mapped onto Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs).

Contents:

to Content-Based Visual Processing

Existing Techniques of Visual Processing

Voronoi Ordered Space

A System for Video Object Segmentation

Robust Representation of Shape with DAGs

A System for Image/Video Object Query by Shape

The Future of Content-Based Video Processing.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-173) and index.

ISBN:

1-280-20637-3

9786610206377

0-306-47037-3

OCLC:

923695968