View synthesis offers a great flexibility in generating free viewpoint television (FTV) and 3D video (3DV). However, the depth-image-based view synthesis approach is very sensiti...
Wenxiu Sun, Oscar C. Au, Lingfeng Xu, Sung Him Chu...
Sprite coding is a very efficient method for the representation and compression of background video object, which has been accepted by MPEG-4 standard. However, how to automatical...
The purpose of this paper is to introduce a fast automated whitenoise estimation method which gives reliable estimates in images with smooth and textured areas. This method is a b...
The recent advances in Image Based Rendering (IBR) has pioneered a new technology, free-view television, in which TVviewers select freely the viewing position and angle by the app...
The increasing availability of object-based video content requires new technologies for automatically extracting and matching of the low level features of arbitrarily shaped video...