Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

European Initiatives

FP7-PEOPLE-SHIVPRO

Participants : Olivier Le Meur, Zhi Liu.

• Title  : Saliency-aware High-resolution Video Processing.

• Research axis :   6.1.1 .

• Partners : Visting professor from Shanghai University.

• Funding : EC-FP7 MC-IIF International Incoming Fellowships (IIF).

• Period : 08/2012-07/2014

The proposal SHIVPRO (Saliency-aware High-resolution Video Processing) submitted to the call FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IIF (funding scheme: MC-IIF International Incoming Fellowships (IIF)) has been accepted. Dr. Z. Liu, from Beijing University, has joined the team since August 2012 for two years. The objective of this project is to propose an efficient spatio-temporal saliency model to predict salient regions in High-Resolution (HR) videos, and fully exploit it to ease the design and improve the performance of HR video compression and retargeting applications. With the aim to overcome the drawbacks of existing saliency models, based on a multiscale region representation, the proposed model systematically realizes statistical model saliency measuring, intra-scale saliency modification, inter-scale saliency propagation and flexible incorporation of top-down information, to generate a novel saliency representation form with scalability, saliency tree, from which a multiscale saliency fusion scheme is used to derive high-quality saliency maps at various scales.