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Multimedia Analysis, Processing and Communications

  • Latest research on Multimedia Analysis, Processing and Communications
  • Edited results form the 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Analysis and Processing (IMAP) held in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands August 4-7 2008
  • Written by leading experts in this field

Part of the book series: Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI, volume 346)

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Table of contents (26 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Image Processing and Analysis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Visualisation and Browsing of Image Databases

      • William Plant, Gerald Schaefer
      Pages 3-57
    3. Relevance Feedback Models for Content-Based Image Retrieval

      • Peter Auer, Alex Po Leung
      Pages 59-79
    4. Biological Inspired Methods for Media Classification and Retrieval

      • Krishna Chandramouli, Tomas Piatrik, Ebroul Izquierdo
      Pages 81-109
    5. Robust Image Watermarking Based on Feature Regions

      • Cheng Deng, Xinbo Gao, Xuelong Li, Dacheng Tao
      Pages 111-137
    6. Image Authentication Using Active Watermarking and Passive Forensics Techniques

      • Xi Zhao, Philip Bateman, Anthony T. S. Ho
      Pages 139-183
    7. Blind Measurement of Image Blur for Vision-Based Applications

      • Shiqian Wu, Shoulie Xie, Weisi Lin
      Pages 185-215
    8. A Unified Tensor Level Set Method for Image Segmentation

      • Xinbo Gao, Bin Wang, Dacheng Tao, Xuelong Li
      Pages 217-238
    9. Recognition of Sketches in Photos

      • Bing Xiao, Xinbo Gao, Dacheng Tao, Xuelong Li
      Pages 239-262
  3. Video Processing and Analysis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 263-263
    2. Object Detection and Tracking for Intelligent Video Surveillance

      • Kyungnam Kim, Larry S. Davis
      Pages 265-288
    3. Filtering Surveillance Image Streams by Interactive Machine Learning

      • Cristina Versino, Paolo Lombardi
      Pages 289-325
    4. Automatic Video Activity Recognition

      • Haowei Liu, Ming-Ting Sun, Rogerio Feris
      Pages 327-349
    5. Robust Spatio-Temporal Features for Human Action Recognition

      • Riccardo Mattivi, Ling Shao
      Pages 351-367
    6. Human Action Recognition Based on Radon Transform

      • Yan Chen, Qiang Wu, Xiangjian He
      Pages 369-389
    7. 2D and 3D Pose Recovery from a Single Uncalibrated Video

      • Jean-Christophe Nebel, Paul Kuo, Dimitrios Makris
      Pages 391-411
    8. A Comprehensive Study of Sports Video Analysis

      • Ming-Chun Tien, Ja-Ling Wu, Wei-Ta Chu
      Pages 413-441
    9. Semantic Content Analysis of Video: Issues and Trends

      • Aparna Garg, Allan Ramsay
      Pages 443-457

About this book

This book has brought 24 groups of experts and active researchers around the world together in  image processing and analysis, video processing and analysis, and communications related processing, to present their newest research results, exchange latest experiences and insights, and explore future directions in these important and rapidly evolving areas. It aims at increasing the synergy between academic and industry professionals working in the related field. It focuses on the state-of-the-art research in various essential areas related to emerging technologies, standards and applications on analysis, processing, computing, and communication of multimedia information.

 

The target audience of this book is researchers and engineers as well as graduate students working in various disciplines linked to multimedia analysis, processing and communications, e.g., computer vision, pattern recognition, information technology, image processing, and artificial intelligence. The book is also meant to a broader audience including practicing professionals working in image/video applications such as image processing, video surveillance, multimedia indexing and retrieval, and so on. We hope that the researchers, engineers, students and other professionals who read this book would find it informative, useful and inspirational toward their own work in one way or another.  

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Computer Engineering , Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

    Weisi Lin, Dacheng Tao

  • Intelligent Systems Laboratory Systems Research Institute , Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

    Janusz Kacprzyk

  • Department of Computing , Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong

    Zhu Li

  • School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary, University of London, London, U.K.

    Ebroul Izquierdo

  • TCL-Thomson Electronics , Santa Clara

    Haohong Wang

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