Decomposing video frames into coherent two-dimensional motion layers is a powerful method for representing videos. Such a representation provides an intermediate description that e...
An encoder based rate smoothing scheme which uses explicit slicebased mode selection has been proposed recently. The algorithm provides significantly smoother bitstream from a va...
Most codecs such as MPEG-1,2 are based on processing pixels in predetermined tiles of square blocks. The processing of each block is independent of the object-based contents that m...
Video based analysis of a persons' mood or behavior is in general performed by interpreting various features observed on the body. Facial actions, such as speaking, yawning o...
A multimedia system utilizes a set of correlated media streams each of which partially help in achieving the system goal. However, since not all of the streams always contribute t...