Object-based video representation provides great promises for new search and editing functionalities. Feature regions iii video sequences are automatically segmented, tracked, and grouped to form the basis for content-based video search and higher levels of abstraction. We present a new system for video object segmentation and tracking using feature fusion and region grouping. We also present e...

With the increasing number of people who can afford to make videos to record their lives, home videos play more and more important role in people’s lives. Video abstraction is an efficient way to help review such a huge amount of home videos. In this paper, an automatic home video abstraction method mainly using audio contents is presented. The audio contents are first segmented and classified ...

Reducing the product development cycle time is one of the most important and challenging problems faced by the industry today. As the functionality and complexity of devices increases, so does the time required to design, test, and develop the devices. Developing products rapidly in the face of this increasing complexity requires new methodologies and tools. This paper presents a methodology fo...

This paper explores levels of abstraction: Representational games present a fictional world, but within that world, players are only allowed to perform certain actions; the fictional world of the game is only implemented to a certain detail. The paper distinguishes between abstraction as a core element of video game design, abstraction as something that the player decodes while playing a game, ...

As the amount of available digital video content is increasing exponentially, novel ways of storing, accessing and retrieving it are being developped, such as indexing, segmentation or abstraction techniques. Video abstraction can be useful in many ways from automatic home movie editing to easier (and faster) exploration of a video collection. Video summaries can be a set of carefully selected ...

As the amount of available digital video content is increasing exponentially, novel ways of storing, accessing and retrieving it are being developped, such as indexing, segmentation or abstraction techniques. Video abstraction can be useful in many ways – from automatic home movie editing to easier (and faster) exploration of a video collection. Video summaries can be a set of carefully selecte...

More and more home videos are being generated with the ever growing popularity of digital cameras and camcorders. For many home videos, a photo rendering, whether capturing a moment or a scene within the video, provides a complementary representation to the video. In this paper, a video motion mining framework for creative rendering is presented. The user’s capture intent is derived by analyzin...

Multimedia content can be described at different levels of abstraction such as measures of video colour, texture and motion and comparatively high-level 'semantic' descriptions in textual form. The textual description of moving images at different levels of abstraction can be explored in the context of moving images from a specialist domain, such as sequences of dance. The KAB system annotates ...