Applying Level Set Theory to Digital Video Segmentation
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چکیده
The emergence of the MPEG-4 standard has brought the area of video segmentation and contour tracking to the forefront or research. In MPEG-4 video sequences are decomposed into various video object planes (VOP’s), which are coded separately into the video stream. This has increased the need for good video segmentation techniques. Inspired by recent advances in level set theory that give excellent results for image segmentation albeit at very high complexity, this paper looks at how level sets can be applied to video segmentation. A framework is proposed and implemented to reduce the complexity of using level sets for video segmentation. Finally, results are given that show excellent segmentation with significant complexity reductions. Future research directions are then discussed.
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