Project Content:

A project usually consists of reading of papers in a chosen area, compare performances of different approaches, and perhaps propose your own algorithms/improvements, implement one or two of them. Alternatively, it can be a survey of system development and  commercial deployment.

Deadlines:

• Submit a project proposal (describing the problems to be explored, include a list of references already read, and what you plan to accomplish): 2/26 (You can discuss with me in the next two weeks about the possible topics, either in my office hour or through email).
• Final project presentation (a 15 minutes oral presentation, possibly with demonstration of computer implementations): 5/14.
• Final project report: 5/14

Suggested Project Topics:

• Video sampling and sampling rate conversion
• Analysis of interlaced video, deinterlacing, etc. [Beuker94]
• Conversion between chosen formats (with computer implementation)
• Motion estimation
• Survey and comparison of block based techniques, fast algorithms
• Advanced algorithms (global motion estimation, mesh-based, object-based, dense motion estimation, etc.)
• 3D motion estimation
• Video compression
• Compare different coding standards (MPEG1,2,4,H.261/H.263), their performances and intended applications, availability and applicability of commerical products
• Embeded/scalable video coding using wavelets/subbands
• Rate control in video
• Video transcoding in compressed domain
• Video transmission
• Internet Protocols enabling real-time applications (RTP/RSVP/RTSP)
• Video over wireless
• Error resilience/concealment
• Commercial products for interactive and streaming applications
• Scene segmentation
• Region segmentation
• Object segmentation
• Object tracking
• Video analysis and summarization
• Video segmentation
• Key frame selection
• Video retrieval based on motion/color similarity
• Visual/multimedia communication systems
• Digital TV / HDTV deployment in US/Europe
• MPEG-4 terminals
• Video-on-demand
• Video watermarking