Video segmentation for content-based coding

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1190-1203

  Meier, Thomas ^a,b   Ngan, King N ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Content based coding; Hausdorff object tracker; Morphological motion filtering; MPEG 4; Video object planes; Video segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL FLOWS; STANDARDS;

CONTENT-BASED CODING; HAUSDORFF OBJECT TRACKERS; MORPHOLOGICAL MOTION FILTERING; MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP (MPEG) STANDARD; VIDEO OBJECT PLANES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0033281097     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/76.809155     Document Type: Article

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