Interactive segmentation with hidden object-based annotations: toward smart media

In this paper a novel "Smart Media" concept for semantic-based multimedia security and management is proposed. This concept is based on interactive object segmentation (considered as side information in visual human-computer interface) with hidden object-based annotations. Information-theoretic formalism is introduced that considers the human-computer interface as a multiple access channel. We do not consider an image as a set of pixels but rather as a set of annotated regions that correspond to objects or their parts, where these objects are associated with some hidden descriptive text about their features. The presented approach for "semantic" segmentation is addressed by means of the human-computer interface that allows a user to easily incorporate information related to image objects and to store them in a secure way. Since each selected image object carries its own embedded description, this makes it self-containing and formally independent from the particular...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: SPIESR
• Authors: Yuriy Rytsar, Sviatoslav Voloshynovskiy, Frédéric Ehrler, Thierry Pun
• Keywords: Database, Human-computer Interface, Image, Image Object, SPIESR 2004