附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-173) and index.
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.
