Robust motion segmentation for content-based video coding
Francesca Odone, Andrea Fusiello, E. Tracco · 2000
This paper presents a motion segmentation method useful for representing efficiently a video shot as a static mosaic of the background plus sequences of moving foreground objects. This generates an MPEG-4 compliant, content-based representation useful for video coding, editing and indexing. Segmentation of moving objects is carried out by comparing each frame with a mosaic of the static background, in which the ego-motion of the camera is compensated for with a robust technique. The automatic computation of the mosaic and the segmentation procedure are compared with the current literature and illustrated with real sequences experiments. An example of content-based manipulation is also shown.