In the last decades, a large diversity of automatic, semi-automatic and manual approaches for video segmentation and knowledge extraction from video-data has been proposed. Due to the high complexity in both the spatial and temporal domain, it continues to be a challenging research area. In order to develop, train, and evaluate new algorithms, ground truth of video-data is crucial. Pixel-wise a...

Recently, design researchers have been interested in observation-analysis approach to study design activities. This is how the annotation and annotation tools have been introduced into the design research. This paper describes the annotation process as an approach in design activity studies and proposes a sequential structure for the annotation process. The research objective is to characterize...

This paper reviews recent advances in using B pictures in the context of the draft H.26L video compression standard. We focus on reference picture selection and linearly combined motion-compensated prediction signals. We show that bi-directional prediction exploits partially the efficiency of combined prediction signals whereas multihypothesis prediction allows a more general form of B pictures...

Video compression is very crucial method which is used to reduce the quantity of data used to represent digital video pictures. However, most video compression is loss when the video pictures data is quantized. So a quantizer is key factors for adjusting the bitrate and controlling the picture quality. Importantly, if the concerned region of video sequence takes on high level picture quality, t...

This short paper is describing a demonstrator that is complementing the paper “Towards Cross-Media Feature Extraction” in these proceedings. The demo is exemplifying the use of textual resources, out of which semantic information can be extracted, for supporting the semantic annotation and indexing of associated video material in the soccer domain. Entities and events extracted from textual dat...

This paper reviews recent advances in using B pictures in the context of the draft H.264/AVC video compression standard. We focus on reference picture selection and linearly combined motion-compensated prediction signals. We show that bi-directional prediction exploits partially the efficiency of combined prediction signals whereas multihypothesis prediction allows a more general form of B pict...

We present interactive techniques for visually annotating independently moving objects in a video stream. Features in the video are automatically tracked and grouped in an off-line preprocess that enables later interactive manipulation and annotation. Examples of such annotations include speech and thought balloons, video graffiti, hyperlinks, and path arrows. Our system also employs a directma...