Computer vision for enhanced communications

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COMPUTER VISION FOR ENHANCED COMMUNICATIONS: Multimedia communication systems in applications such as internet, database management, broadcasting, mobile telephony, multisensor systems, robotics, and surveillance, continually produce, transmit, and receive massive amounts of visual data. Unless processing systems are effective at extracting useful information from this data, applications will perform poorly, resulting in degraded quality of service and loss of economic opportunity. In this context, communication content analysis and interpretation are vital to productive applications. This research in visual communications is part of the multimedia research programme at INRS-EMT. Its purpose is to develop efficient computer vision methods to expedite and enhance visual communications. It investigates two broad subjects in analysis and interpretation of visual data: image segmentation and motion analysis in image sequences. The anticipated solution of these subjects key problems promises to enable a rich array of efficient new image interpretation techniques. These techniques will serve visual communications in critical such applications as medical diagnostic and intervention, robotics, and security.