Object segmentation from consumer videos: A unified framework based on visual attention

IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1597-1605

  Han, Junwei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consumer video applications; Object of interest; Video object segmentation; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION MODEL; CONSUMER VIDEO APPLICATIONS; CONSUMER VIDEOS; CONTENT-BASED; DYNAMIC ATTENTION MODELS; HUMAN VISUAL ATTENTION; OBJECT OF INTEREST; OBJECT SEGMENTATION; UNIFIED FRAMEWORK; VIDEO OBJECT SEGMENTATION; VIDEO SCENE; VISUAL ATTENTION;

MOTION COMPENSATION; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 70350281530     PISSN: 00983063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCE.2009.5278032     Document Type: Article

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