Development of a Region-of-Uninterest (ROU) Detection System for Multimedia Applications

There are many research activities on Region of Interest (ROI) in the research fields of image recognition, used for medical treatments and sport video analysis. Especially, many researches on Region of Interest have been conducted in the research area mainly on image processing. It is important to extract a region which is not an interest area in order to avoid the false negative of an area of interest, rather than ROI. The authors previously proposed the concept of Region of Uninterest (ROU). It is much meaningful to consider a currently uninteresting area, ROU, but will become a useful area in future. In this paper, we describe a ROU detection system, which can be applicable to many multimedia application. The system was designed and developed to show the ROU effectiveness. In this paper, we also describe how our ROU concept can be used, by applying the three applications, such as Map, Movie, and Costume monitoring, using our ROU detection system.