Interaction between high-level and low-level image analysis for semantic video object extraction

Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing

Volumn 2004, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 786-797

  Cavallaro, Andrea ^a   Ebrahimi, Touradj ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Change detection; Image analysis; Segmentation; Video object

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTICS; VISION;

CHANGE DETECTION; VIDEO OBJECT; VIDEO SEQUENCES;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 4043060815     PISSN: 11108657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/S1110865704402157     Document Type: Article

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