TY - BOOK ID - 37889871 TI - Video object extraction and representation : theory and applications AU - Lin, I-Jong AU - Kung, S. Y. PY - 2000 SN - 1280206373 9786610206377 0306470373 0792379748 PB - Boston, Mass. : Kluwer Academic Publisher, DB - UniCat KW - Digital video. KW - MPEG (Video coding standard) KW - Image processing KW - Directed graphs. KW - Digital techniques. KW - Computer vision. KW - Computer engineering. KW - Computer graphics. KW - Multimedia systems. KW - Image Processing and Computer Vision. KW - Signal, Image and Speech Processing. KW - Electrical Engineering. KW - Computer Graphics. KW - Multimedia Information Systems. KW - Optical data processing. KW - Signal processing. KW - Image processing. KW - Speech processing systems. KW - Electrical engineering. KW - Multimedia information systems. KW - Computer-based multimedia information systems KW - Multimedia computing KW - Multimedia information systems KW - Multimedia knowledge systems KW - Information storage and retrieval systems KW - Automatic drafting KW - Graphic data processing KW - Graphics, Computer KW - Computer art KW - Graphic arts KW - Electronic data processing KW - Engineering graphics KW - Electric engineering KW - Engineering KW - Computational linguistics KW - Electronic systems KW - Information theory KW - Modulation theory KW - Oral communication KW - Speech KW - Telecommunication KW - Singing voice synthesizers KW - Pictorial data processing KW - Picture processing KW - Processing, Image KW - Imaging systems KW - Optical data processing KW - Processing, Signal KW - Information measurement KW - Signal theory (Telecommunication) KW - Optical computing KW - Visual data processing KW - Bionics KW - Integrated optics KW - Photonics KW - Computers KW - Digital techniques KW - Optical equipment KW - Digraphs (Graph theory) KW - Oriented graphs KW - Graph theory KW - Digital image processing KW - Digital electronics KW - Motion Picture Experts Group standard KW - Digital video KW - Video compression KW - Digital motion video KW - PC video KW - Video, Digital KW - Computer graphics KW - Digital media KW - Multimedia systems KW - Standards UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:37889871 AB - “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. ” - Henry David Thoreau, Walden Although engineering is a study entrenched firmly in belief of pr- matism, I have always believed its impact need not be limited to pr- matism. Pragmatism is not the boundaries that define engineering, just the (sometimes unforgiving) rules by which we sight our goals. This book studies two major problems of content-based video proce- ing for a media-based technology: Video Object Plane (VOP) Extr- tion and Representation, in support of the MPEG-4 and MPEG-7 video standards, respectively. After reviewing relevant image and video p- cessing techniques, we introduce the concept of Voronoi Ordered Spaces for both VOP extraction and representation to integrate shape infor- tion into low-level optimization algorithms and to derive robust shape descriptors, respectively. We implement a video object segmentation system with a novel surface optimization scheme that integrates Voronoi Ordered Spaces with existing techniques to balance visual information against predictions of models of a priori information. With these VOPs, we have explicit forms of video objects that give users the ability to - dress and manipulate video content. We outline a general methodology of robust data representation and comparison through the concept of complex partitioning mapped onto Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs). ER -