Multimedia Analysis, Processing and Communications

by Lin, Weisi; Tao, Dacheng; Kacprzyk, Janusz; Li, Zhu; Izquierdo, Ebroul

• ISBN13: 9783642195501
• ISBN10: 3642195504
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-05-12
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

This book has brought 24 groups of experts and active researchers around the world together in#xA0; 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.#xA0;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. #xA0;

Table of Contents

Image Processing and Analysis
Visualisation and Browsing of Image Databases	p. 3
Relevance Feedback Models for Content-Based Image Retrieval	p. 59
Biological Inspired Methods for Media Classification and Retrieval	p. 81
Robust Image Watermarking Based on Feature Regions	p. 111
Image Authentication Using Active Watermarking and Passive Forensics Techniques	p. 139
Blind Measurement of Image Blur for Vision-Based Applications	p. 185
A Unified Tensor Level Set Method for Image Segmentation	p. 217
Recognition of Sketches in Photos	p. 239
Video Processing and Analysis
Object Detection and Tracking for Intelligent Video Surveillance	p. 265
Filtering Surveillance Image Streams by Interactive Machine Learning	p. 289
Automatic Video Activity Recognition	p. 327
Robust Spatio-Temporal Features for Human Action Recognition	p. 351
Human Action Recognition Based on Radon Transform	p. 369
2D and 3D Pose Recovery from a Single Uncalibrated Video: A View and Activity Independent Framework	p. 391
A Comprehensive Study of Sports Video Analysis	p. 413
Semantic Content Analysis of Video: Issues and Trends	p. 443
Semi-automatic Knowledge Extraction, Representation, and Context-Sensitive Intelligent Retrieval of Video Content Using Collateral Context Modelling with Scalable Ontological Networks	p. 459
A Human-Centered Computing Framework to Enable Personalized News Video Recommendation	p. 475
Visual Quality Evaluation for Images and Videos	p. 497
Communications Related Processing
Scalable Video Coding and Its Applications	p. 547
Auction Based Resource Allocation for Cooperative Wireless Video Transmission with Distributed Source Coding	p. 561
Enterprise VoIPin Fixed Mobile Converged Networks	p. 585
Speech Quality Assessment	p. 623
Document-Aware Graph Models for Query-Oriented Multi-document Summarization	p. 655
Elements of Visual Concept Analysis	p. 679
Error Propagation and Distortion Modeling in Loss-Affected Predictive Video Coding	p. 719
Index	p. 759
Author Index	p. 763
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