Object segmentation and object-based surveillance video indexing

  • Kim, Jin-Woong (Broadcasting Technology Department Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute) ;
  • Kim, Mun-Churl (Broadcasting Technology Department Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute) ;
  • Lee, Kyu-Won (Broadcasting Technology Department Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute) ;
  • Kim, Jae-Gon (Broadcasting Technology Department Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute) ;
  • Ahn, Chie-Teuk (Broadcasting Technology Department Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute)
  • Published : 1999.06.01

Abstract

Object segmentation fro natural video scenes has recently become one of very active research to pics due to the object-based video coding standard MPEG-4. Object detection and isolation is also useful for object-based indexing and search of video content, which is a goal of the emerging new standard, MPEG-7. In this paper, an automatic segmentation method of moving objects in image sequence is presented which is applicable to multimedia content authoring for MPEG-4, and two different segmentation approaches suitable for surveillance applications are addressed in raw data domain and compressed bitstream domains. We also propose an object-based video description scheme based on object segmentation for video indexing purposes.

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