of learning and recognizing human and other biological movements in video sequences of an unconstrai...

This thesis presents a general, trainable system for object detection in static images and video sequences. The core system finds a certain class of objects in static im-ages of completely unconstrained, cluttered scenes without using motion, tracking, or handcrafted models and without making any

The human visual system appears to be capable of temporally integrating information in a video sequence in such a way that the perceived spatial resolution of a sequence appears much higher than the spatial resolution of an individual frame. While the mechanisms in the human visual system which do

"Background subtraction" is an old technique for finding moving objects in a video sequence---for example, cars driving on a freeway. The idea is that subtracting the current image from a time-averaged background image will leave only nonstationary objects. It is, however, a crude

Cinema is a stream of audio and visual elements orchestrated in time providing us with a rich language and tradition of sto-rytelling. New media technologies, particularly structured video, open up possibilities to expand and evolve the language of cinema and establish new modes of content delivery

We propose a real-time object segmentation method for MPEG encoded video. Computational superiority is the main advantage of compressed domain processing. We exploit the macro-block structure of the encoded video to decrease the spatial resolution of the processed data, which ex-ponentially reduces

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This paper proposes a probabilistic graphical model for the problem of propagating labels in video sequences, also termed the label propagation problem. Given a limited amount of hand labelled pixels, typically the start and end frames of a chunk of video, an EM based algorithm propagates labels

A novel methodology to represent the contents of a video sequence is presented. The representation is used to allow the user to rapidly view a video sequence in order to find a particular point within the sequence ad/or to decide whether the contents of the sequence are relevant to his or her needs