Current and emerging topics in sports video processing

X Yu, D Farin - 2005 IEEE International Conference on …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sports video processing is an interesting topic for research, since the clearly defined game
rules in sports provide the rich domain knowledge for analysis. Moreover, it is interesting …

Seamline determination based on segmentation for urban image mosaicking

J Pan, Q Zhou, M Wang - IEEE Geoscience and Remote …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter presents a method of seamline determination based on segmentation for
orthoimage mosaicking in an urban area. Image segmentation is used to achieve regions of …

Seam carving with improved edge preservation

J Kiess, S Kopf, B Guthier… - Multimedia on Mobile …, 2010 - spiedigitallibrary.org
In this paper, we propose a new method to adapt the resolution of images to the limited
display resolution of mobile devices. We use the seam carving technique to identify and …

Algorithms for video retargeting

S Kopf, T Haenselmann, J Kiess, B Guthier… - Multimedia tools and …, 2011 - Springer
The visualization of high resolution video on small mobile devices is still a great challenge
today. Most critical are the limited display resolution and different aspect ratios of handheld …

FSCAV: Fast seam carving for size adaptation of videos

S Kopf, J Kiess, H Lemelson, W Effelsberg - Proceedings of the 17th …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
The presentation of multimedia data and especially of high resolution videos on small
mobile devices is still a great challenge today. Both cropping of borders and scaling of …

Video-object segmentation using multi-sprite background subtraction

D Farin, PHN de With… - 2004 IEEE International …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The background subtraction algorithm is a frequently-used object segmentation technique
because of its algorithmic simplicity. However, we show that, for general rotational camera …

Robust character recognition in low-resolution images and videos

S Kopf, T Haenselmann, W Effelsberg - None, 2005 - madoc.bib.uni-mannheim.de
Although OCR techniques work very reliably for high-resolution documents, the recognition
of superimposed text in low-resolution images or videos with a complex background is still a …

Motion-based object segmentation using hysteresis and bidirectional inter-frame change detection in sequences with moving camera

MG Arvanitidou, M Tok, A Glantz, A Krutz… - Signal Processing: Image …, 2013 - Elsevier
We present an unsupervised motion-based object segmentation algorithm for video
sequences with moving camera, employing bidirectional inter-frame change detection. For …

Automatic scaling and cropping of videos for devices with limited screen resolution

S Kopf, F Lampi, T King, W Effelsberg - Proceedings of the 14th ACM …, 2006 - dl.acm.org
A large number of previously recorded videos cannot be directly visualized on mobile
devices like PDAs or mobile phones due to an inappropriate screen resolution of their …

Bringing videos to social media

S Kopf, S Wilk, W Effelsberg - 2012 IEEE International …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Although the importance of video sharing and of social media is increasing from day to day,
a full integration of videos into social media is not achieved yet. We have developed a …