MPEG-4 Authoring Tool using Moving Object Segmentation and Tracking in Video Shots

Authors
P. Daras
I. Kompatsiaris
I. Grinias
G. Akrivas
G. Tziritas
S. Kollias
M. G. Strintzis
Year
2003
Venue
EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Vol. 2003, No. 9, pp. 861-877, August 2003

Abstract

In this paper an authoring tool for the MPEG-4 multimedia standard integrated with image sequence analysis algorithms is described. Bringing much new functionality, MPEG-4 offers numerous capabilities and is expected to be the future standard for multimedia applications. However, the implementation of these capabilities requires a complex authoring process, employing many different competencies from image sequence analysis and encoding of Audio/visual/BIFS to the implementation of different delivery scenarios: local access on CD/DVD-ROM, Internet or broadcast. As multimedia system history teaches, however powerful the technologies underlying multimedia computing, the success of these systems depends on their ease of authoring. In this paper a novel authoring tool fully exploiting the object-based coding and 3D synthetic functionalities of the MPEG-4 standard is described. Itisbased upon an open and modular architecture able to progress with MPEG-4 versions and it is easily adaptable to newly emerging better and higher-level authoring and image sequence analysis features.

Keywords: MPEG-4, Authoring Tools, Image sequence analysis