A low-complexity region-based video coder using backward morphological motion field segmentation

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 332-345

  Yang, Xuguang ^a,b   Ramchandran, Kannan ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Compression; Morphological operations; Motion estimation; Object recognition; Video coding

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STANDARDS;

BACKWARD MORPHOLOGICAL MOTION FIELD SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 0033099801     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/83.748889     Document Type: Article

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