Topics Covered

Formation and representation of video, spatio-temporal video sampling, motion analysis and estimation: real versus apparent motion, optical flow, block- and mesh-based methods for motion estimation and region-based stochastic motion modeling, motion segmentation and layered video representations, video filtering: motion-compensated filtering, noise reduction, signal recovery, deblurring, superresolution, mosaicing, deinterlacing and frame-rate conversion, video compression techniques and standards, content-based video indexing and retrieval, video communication: digital television, streaming over IP and wireless networks, error control and watermarking, stereo and multiview sequence processing.