A major problem in object oriented video coding and MPEG-4 is the encoding of object boundanes. Traditionally, and within MPEG-4, the encodingof shape and textureinformationare se...
Lisimachos P. Kondi, Gerry Melnikov, Aggelos K. Ka...
In Proc. European Conf. Computer Vision, 1996, pp. 357{368, Cambridge, UK The performance of Active Contours in tracking is highly dependent on the availability of an appropriate ...
David Reynard, Andrew Wildenberg, Andrew Blake, Jo...
The Internet provides a highly suitable infrastructure for sharing multimedia meeting records, especially as multimedia technologies become more lightweight and workers more mobil...
Patrick Chiu, John S. Boreczky, Andreas Girgensohn...
In this paper, we propose to focus on the segmentation of vectorial features (e.g. vector fields or color intensity) using region-based active contours. We search for a domain that...
Statistical shape-and-texture appearance models employ image metamorphosis to form a rich, compact representation of object appearance. They achieve their efficiency by decomposin...