Model-based segmentation and tracking of head-and-shoulder video objects for real time multimedia services

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 379-389

  Luo, Huitao ^a   Eleftheriadis, Alexandros ^b  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Low bit rate coding; MPEG 4; Statistical modeling; Video object segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL FILTERS; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

MODEL DETECTION; MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP; STATISTICAL MODEL; VIDEO OBJECT SEGMENTATION;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 0041409914     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2003.813285     Document Type: Article

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