Spatio-temporal segmentation of image sequences for object-oriented low bit-rate image coding

Signal Processing: Image Communication

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 513-543

  Wu, L ^a   Benois Pineau, J ^a   Delagnes, Ph ^a   Barba, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

Image coding; Motion estimation; Multi resolution pyramid; Occlusion processing; Temporal prediction

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; TELECONFERENCING;

INITIALIZATION STEP; MOTION ESTIMATION; MULTI RESOLUTION PYRAMID; OBJECT ORIENTED IMAGE CODING; OCCLUSION PROCESSING; TEMPORAL PREDICTION; TEMPORAL TRACKING; TIME VARYING IMAGE SEQUENCES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0030241856     PISSN: 09235965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0923-5965(96)00004-5     Document Type: Article

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