IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

This paper presents an efficient VLSI architecture design of MPEG-4 shape coding, which is the key technology for supporting the content-based functionality of the MPEG-4 video standard. The real-time constraint of MPEG-4 shape coding leads to a heavy computational bottleneck on today's computer architectures. To overcome this problem, design analysis and optimization of MPEG-4 shape coding are ad... View full abstract»

This paper describes a new design method for lapped orthogonal transforms (LOTs) that can provide a desired tradeoff between coding efficiency and resilience to transmission errors. Traditionally, LOT bases have been designed solely to maximize coding efficiency. When certain coefficients are lost due to transmission channel impairments, the reconstructed image is often unsatisfactory. Previously,... View full abstract»

News story parsing is an important and challenging task in a news video library system. We address two important components in a news video story parsing system: shot boundary detection and anchorperson detection. First, an unsupervised fuzzy c-means algorithm is used to detect video-shot boundaries in order to segment a news video into video shots. Then, a graph-theoretical cluster analysis algor... View full abstract»

This paper examines the effectiveness of combining multiple description coding (MDC) and multiple path transport (MPT) for video and image transmission in a multihop mobile radio network. The video and image information is encoded nonhierarchically into multiple descriptions with the following objectives. The received picture quality should be acceptable, even if only one description is received a... View full abstract»

We investigate three new methods to predict motion vectors (MVs) across subbands for multi-resolution motion estimation (MRME): linear prediction, median filtering (MF), and multi-candidate techniques. Compared to the conventional MRME techniques, the proposed linear-prediction-based and the MF-based techniques effectively overcome the problem of propagation of false MVs. A significant feature of ... View full abstract»

The quality and spatial resolution of video can be improved by combining multiple pictures to form a single superresolution picture. We address the special problems associated with pictures of variable but somehow parameterized quality such as MPEG-decoded video. Our algorithm provides a unified approach to restoration, chrominance upsampling, deinterlacing, and resolution enhancement. A decoded M... View full abstract»

Three-dimensional (3D) wavelet-based scalable video coding provides a viable alternative to standard MC-DCT coding. However, many current 3D wavelet coders experience severe boundary effects across group of pictures (GOP) boundaries. This paper proposes a memory-efficient transform technique via lifting that effectively computes wavelet transforms of a video sequence continuously on the fly, thus ... View full abstract»

Recent success in discrete cosine transform (DCT) image coding is mainly attributed to recognition of the importance of data organization and representation. Currently, there are several competitive DCT-based coders such as DCT-based embedded image coding (EZDCT) (see Xiong et al., Z., 1996) and significance tree quantization (STQ) (see Davis, G. and Chawla, S., 1997). In the wavelet context, morp... View full abstract»