The rapid growth of network transmission of numeric videos has caused an urgent need for
copyright protection against pirating. Different video watermarking techniques have been …

There has been related research for sprite or mosaic generation for over 15 years. In this
article, we try to understand the methodologies for sprite generation and identify what has …

Techniques for modeling the background of a video sequence can be useful in alternative
video coding approaches. Sprite coding has been evolved to provide high quality decoded …

With the development of the emerging applications, watermarking methods require a new
type of constraints. In fact, robustness to malicious attacks and processing time reduction …

This thesis introduces new techniques for global motion estimation using gradient descent
algorithms and M-estimators, and applies them to motion estimation for video compression …

Sprite generation has been studied for both content based retrieval and video compression.
Sprite generation is an important part of the MPEG-4 Main Profile and is an efficient way of …