Chapter 13

Video Processing—An Overview

Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury,    Department of Electrical Engineering, Department of Computer Science (Cooperating Faculty), University of California, CA, USA

Video processing can be defined as analysis of the content of the video to obtain an understanding of the scene that it describes. It is an essential component of a number of technologies, including video surveillance, robotics, and multimedia. From a basic science perspective, methods in video analysis are motivated by the need to develop machine algorithms that can mimic the capabilities of human (and other animal) visual systems. It is an area of research that has seen huge growth in the recent past. Researchers in video analysis have varied backgrounds, ...

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