Springer Video Segmentation and Its Applications

This book presents the latest advances in video segmentation and analysis techniques and covers the theoretical approaches, real applications and methods developed in the computer vision and video analysis community. From the Back Cover Video segmentation has become one of the core areas in visual signal processing research. The objective of Video Segmentation and Its Applications is to present the latest advances in video segmentation and analysis techniques while covering the theoretical approaches, real applications and methods being developed in the computer vision and video analysis community. The book will also provide researchers and practitioners a comprehensive understanding of state-of-the-art of video segmentation techniques and a resource for potential applications and successful practice. About the Author The principal editor has more than 20 years of research experience in multimedia signal processing area. He is a world recognized expert in the field of visual signal processing and communications especially in image/video segmentation. He chaired a number of prestigious international conferences on video signal processing and communications and served on the advisory and technical committees of numerous professional organizations. He has published extensively including 3 authored books, and over 200 refereed technical papers in the areas of visual signal processing, image/video coding and multimedia communications and holds 4 patents on video coding technology.