Hierarchical segmentation of video sequences for content manipulation and adaptive coding

Signal Processing

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 181-201

  Benois Pineau, J ^a   Morier, F ^a   Barba, D ^a   Sanson, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^b ORANGE LABS   (France)

Author keywords

Dominant motion analysis; Hierarchical segmentation; Motion estimation and compensation; Motion based merging

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

GLOBAL MOTION ANALYSIS; VIDEO CONTENT MANIPULATION;

VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 0032045253     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1684(98)00005-X     Document Type: Article

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