Segmentation-based video coding system allowing the manipulation of objects

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 60-74

  Salembier, Philippe ^a   Marqués, Ferran ^a   Pardàs, Montse ^a   Morros, Josep Ramon ^a   Corset, Isabelle ^b   Jeannin, Sylvie ^b   Bouchard, Lionel ^b   Meyer, Fernand ^c   Marcotegui, Beatriz ^c  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^c PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Affine motion estimation; Compensation; Rate distortion optimization; Region based coding; Spatiotemporal segmentation; Video coding

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); EFFICIENCY; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; OPTIMIZATION;

CODING EFFICIENCY; IMAGE REPRESENTATION; MOTION COMPENSATION; MOTION ESTIMATION; PARTITION; RATE DISTORTION OPTIMIZATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0031077745     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/76.554418     Document Type: Article

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