Multimedia information systems require efficient storage of and access to the images in a database. Recently, several image indexing techniques have been reported in the literature. Although these techniques combine i...
Multimedia information systems require efficient storage of and access to the images in a database. Recently, several image indexing techniques have been reported in the literature. Although these techniques combine image compression and image indexing, additional computational and storage costs are required to compute and store the indices. In this paper, we propose a new technique based on wavelet vector quantization for the storage and retrieval of compressed images. Here, the images are first decomposed using wavelet transform followed by vector quantization of the transform coefficients. We note that similar images map to similar codewords. Hence, the labels corresponding to a wavelet-vector-quantized image constitute a feature Vector which is used as an index to store and retrieve the image. In addition, the lowest-resolution subimage resulting from the wavelet decomposition serves as a visual icon for browsing purposes. We note that the index is generated at compression time and, hence, the proposed technique eliminates the need for a separate structure to store the indices. This increases the storage efficiency and provides fast access to the compressed images in the database. (C) 1997 Academic Press Limited.
Multimedia processing is becoming increasingly important with a range of applications. Existing approaches for processing multimedia data can be broadly classified into two categories, namely: (i) microprocessors with...
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Multimedia processing is becoming increasingly important with a range of applications. Existing approaches for processing multimedia data can be broadly classified into two categories, namely: (i) microprocessors with extended media processing capabilities; and (ii) dedicated implementations (ASICs). The complexity, variety of techniques and tools associated with multimedia processing points to the opportunities for reconfigurable computing devices which will be able to adapt the underlying hardware dynamically in response to changes in the input data or processing environment. The paper proposes a novel approach to design a dynamically reconfigurable processor by performing hardware software co-design for a media processing application. As an example, the analysis of the shape coding module of MPEG-4 is chosen to demonstrate the potential for reconfigurability.
The recent advances in VLSI technology, high-speed processor designs, Internet/Intranet implementations, broadband networks (ATM and ISDN) and compression standards (JPEG, MPEG, H.261, H.263 and G.273) are leading to ...
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In this paper, we present a technique for face detection from color images, which utilizes facial geometry and iterative thresholding of skin probability maps to determine candidate face regions in an image. The actua...
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In this paper, we present a technique for face detection from color images, which utilizes facial geometry and iterative thresholding of skin probability maps to determine candidate face regions in an image. The actual face regions are determined by a fast and efficient eye locator technique that employs symmetry analysis along with luminance, chrominance and curvature information. Iterative thresholding makes the technique tolerant to variations in illumination and background. The facial geometry analysis and eye locator techniques are tolerant to scale variations of faces. Experimental results demonstrate the superiority of the proposed technique to a standard PCA (principal components analysis)-based technique, in the presence of scale and illumination variations.
Scalable video compression is very useful for multimedia communications and other applications such as video browsing and interactive TV. In this paper, we have proposed a scalable algorithm for the H.263 coder which ...
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Scalable video compression is very useful for multimedia communications and other applications such as video browsing and interactive TV. In this paper, we have proposed a scalable algorithm for the H.263 coder which makes possible the generation of a multiple rate video stream from a single compressed H.263 video stream. The proposed algorithm has comparable performance at lower bit rates and a superior performance at higher bit rates.
This paper presents a VLSI implementation of discrete wavelet transform (DWT). The architecture is systolic in nature and performs both high-pass and low-pass coefficient calculations with only one set of multipliers....
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This paper presents a VLSI implementation of discrete wavelet transform (DWT). The architecture is systolic in nature and performs both high-pass and low-pass coefficient calculations with only one set of multipliers. The architecture is simple, modular, and cascadable, and has been implemented in VLSI. Simulation results show that real-time coefficient calculation on a 512/spl times/612 pixels monochrome video input can be achieved.
Proposes a new predicative vector quantization (PVQ) technique for image and video compression. This technique has been implemented using neural networks. A Kohonen self organized feature map is used to implement the ...
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Proposes a new predicative vector quantization (PVQ) technique for image and video compression. This technique has been implemented using neural networks. A Kohonen self organized feature map is used to implement the vector quantizer, while a multilayer perceptron implements the predictor. The proposed technique provides a superior coding performance.
Video is an important and challenging medium and requires sophisticated indexing schemes for efficient retrieval from visual databases. An important step in video indexing is scene change detection. Recently, several ...
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Video is an important and challenging medium and requires sophisticated indexing schemes for efficient retrieval from visual databases. An important step in video indexing is scene change detection. Recently, several scene change detection algorithms in the pixel and compressed (MPEG-2) domains have been reported in the literature. These algorithms are computationally complex and are not very robust in detecting gradual scene changes. The authors propose an efficient technique for detecting scene changes in the MPEG-2 compressed domain. The proposed algorithm has the advantage of fast scene change detection. In addition, this algorithm has the potential to detect gradual scene changes.
Video is an important and challenging media and requires sophisticated indexing schemes for efficient retrieval from visual databases. Video segmentation is a fundamental step in video indexing and involves detection ...
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Video is an important and challenging media and requires sophisticated indexing schemes for efficient retrieval from visual databases. Video segmentation is a fundamental step in video indexing and involves detection of scene changes. In this paper, we propose a fast and robust algorithm for detecting video shot boundaries in the MPEG-2 compressed bitstream with minimal decoding.
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