Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Explanation and Index of Outline Pages
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. INTRODUCTION TO CONTENT-BASED VISUAL PROCESSING
  • 1. Content-Based Information Processing
  • 2. Scope of Book
  • 3. Physical Object vs. Video Object
  • 4. Convergence of Technologies
  • 5. The MPEG Standards
  • 6. Specific Challenges of the MPEG Standards
  • 7. Research Contributions
  • 8. Book Outline
  • 9. Conclusion
  • 2. EXISTING TECHNIQUES OF VISUAL PROCESSING
  • 1. Design Implications of Human Vision
  • 2. Image Segmentation
  • 3. Motion Estimation
  • 4. Knowledge Representation
  • 5. Dynamic Programming
  • 6. Compressed Domain
  • 7. Conclusion
  • 3. VORONOI ORDERED SPACE
  • 1. Previous Work
  • 2. Notation
  • 3. Definition of Voronoi Ordered Space
  • 4. Properties of Voronoi Ordered Space
  • 5. Definition of the Voronoi Ordered Skeleton (VOS)
  • 6. Multiresolution Property of the VOS
  • 7. Applications
  • 8. Conclusion
  • 4. A SYSTEM FOR VIDEO OBJECT SEGMENTATION
  • 1. Previous Work
  • 2. Problem Simplifications
  • 3. Problem Formulation via Surface Optimization
  • 4. The Bootstrap Stage
  • 5. Surface Optimization
  • 6. Results and Analysis
  • 7. Conclusion
  • 5. ROBUST REPRESENTATION OF SHAPE WITH DAGS
  • 1. Previous Work
  • 2. Order, Mapping and DAGs
  • 3. Partitioning
  • 4. DAG-Coding
  • 5. Comparing DAG Representations
  • 6. Recursive Structure of DAGs
  • 7. Conclusion
  • 6. A SYSTEM FOR IMAGE/VIDEO OBJECT QUERY BY SHAPE
  • 1. Previous Work
  • 2. Problem Description
  • 3. Shape Extraction via VOS
  • 4. VOS Representation via DAG-Ordered Trees (DOTs)
  • 5. System Design
  • 6. Results and Analysis
  • 7. Conclusion
  • 7. THE FUTURE OF CONTENT-BASED VIDEO PROCESSING
  • 1. Universal Multimedia Access
  • 2. MPEG-4 and MPEG-7 System Synergy
  • 3. Intelligent Video Transport
  • 4. The "New" Media.