Section: Overall Objectives

Analysis and modeling for compact representation and efficient processing

Analysis and modeling of the visual data are crucial steps for a number of video processing problems: 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 (natural 2D still and moving images, multi-view and multi-view plus depth video, high dynamic range images, light fields, 360° video content).