Model-based global and local motion estimation for videoconference sequences

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1156-1161

  Calvagno, Giancarlo ^a   Fantozzi, Ferruccio ^a   Rinaldo, Roberto ^b   Viareggio, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adaptive Kalman filtering; Block matching; Eyebrow tracking; Face tracking; Feature tracking; Lip tracking; Model based coding; Template matching

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; IMAGE CODING; KALMAN FILTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION ESTIMATION; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SIGNAL SYSTEMS; VECTORS; WEBSITES;

BLOCK MATCHING; EYE-BROW TRACKING; MODEL-BASED CODING; SIGNAL BASED CODING METHODS;

VIDEO CONFERENCING;

EID: 4444351701     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2004.833167     Document Type: Article

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