Section: Overall Objectives

Analysis and modeling for compact representation

Analysis and modeling of the visual data are crucial steps for a number of video processing problems: navigation in 3D scenes, compression, loss concealment, denoising, inpainting, editing, content summarization and navigation. The focus is on the extraction of different cues such as scene geometry, edge, texture and motion, on the extraction of high-level features (GIST-like or epitomes), and on the study of computational models of visual attention, useful for different visual processing tasks. In relation to the above problems, the project-team considers various types of image modalities (medical and satellite images, natural 2D still and moving images, multi-view and multi-view plus depth video content).