Video Object Segmentation: A Compressed Domain Approach

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 462-474

  Babu, R Venkatesh ^a   Ramakrishnan, K R ^b   Srinivasan, S H ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^c Satyam Computer Services Ltd India   (India)

Author keywords

Compressed domain; Expectation maximization (EM) algorithm; Motion segmentation; MPEG 4; Object segmentation; Tracking; Video object planes

Indexed keywords

FILTRATION; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE COMPRESSION; INTERPOLATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; VECTORS;

COMPRESSED DOMAIN; EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION (EM) ALGORITHM; MOTION SEGMENTATION; MPEG-4; OBJECT SEGMENTATION; VIDEO OBJECT PLANES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 2042441771     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2004.825536     Document Type: Article

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