MPEG-4 authoring tool using moving object segmentation and tracking in video shots

  • Authors:

  • Petros Daras;Ioannis Kompatsiaris;Ilias Grinias;Georgios Akrivas;Georgios Tziritas;Stefanos Kollias;Michael G. Strintzis

  • Affiliations:

  • Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, The Polytechnic Faculty, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece and Informatics and Telematics Institute (ITI), Thermi-Thessalon ...;Informatics and Telematics Institute (ITI), Thermi-Thessaloniki, Greece;Computer Science Department, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece;School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece;Computer Science Department, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece;School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece;Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece and Informatics and Telematics Institute (ITI), Thermi-Thessaloniki, Greece

  • Venue:
  • EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

An Authoring tool for the MPEG-4 multimedia standard integrated with image sequence analysis algorithms is described. MPEG-4 offers numerous capabilities and is expected to be the future standard for multimedia applications. However, the implementation of these capabilities requires a complex authoring process, employing many different competencies from image sequence analysis and encoding of audio/visual/BIFS to the implementation of different delivery scenarios: local access on CD/DVD-ROM, Internet, or broadcast. However powerful the technologies underlying multimedia computing are, the success of these systems depends on their ease of authoring. In this paper, a novel Authoring tool fully exploiting the object-based coding and 3D synthetic functionalities of the MPEG-4 standard is described. It is based upon an open and modular architecture able to progress with MPEG-4 versions and it is easily adaptable to newly emerging better and higher-level authoring and image sequence analysis features.