MPhil Thesis Defence


"TARGET SENSITIVE VIDEO SEGMENTATION FOR  SEAMLESS VIDEO COMPOSITION"

By

Miss Ruonan Pu


Abstract

Segmentation and composition are important processes in video and movie
production and are rapidly developing research areas. To segment a source
object and seamlessly blend it into a target scene satisfying uniformity
(homogeneity) criterion which is based on feature(s) derived from spatial
or/and temporal information, a large number of algorithms have been
proposed. To alleviate problems inherent to earlier efforts on automatic
segmentation and composition, much work has been performed in an
interactive way, which requires user's assistance to guide the process.

In this thesis, we will first review several representative and recent
algorithms in the area of segmentation and composition. Then our algorithm
for segmenting and compositing video object with simple user interaction
will be described. To generate a seamless video composite, we propose an
approach that integrates both the segmentation and composition processes,
by taking into consideration both the source and target videos. We call
this target sensitive video segmentation for video compositing. We also
demonstrate impressive results and comparisons to evaluate the performance
of our algorithm.


Date:				Wednesday, 27 June 2007

Time:				10:00a.m.-12:00noon

Venue:				Room 4480
				Lifts 25-26

Committee Members:		Dr. Chi-Keung Tang (Supervisor)
				Dr. Chiew-Lan Tai (Chairperson)
				Prof. Long Quan


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