Image and Video Databases: Restoration, Watermarking and Retrieval

Content: 
PrefacePages vii-viiiDelft
OutlinePages ix-xiv
Chapter 1 Introduction to restorationPages 3-8
Chapter 2 Modeling and codingOriginal Research ArticlePages 9-26
Chapter 3 Intensity flicker correctionOriginal Research ArticlePages 27-50
Chapter 4 Blotch detection and correctionOriginal Research ArticlePages 51-92
Chapter 5 Noise reduction by coringOriginal Research ArticlePages 93-121
Chapter 6 Evaluation of restored image sequencesOriginal Research ArticlePages 123-134
Appendix A Hierarchical motion estimationPages 135-136
Appendix B Derivation of conditionalsPages 137-141
Appendix C Optimal quantizers for encoding noisy image sequencesPages 143-145
Bibliography-Part IPages 147-153
Chapter 7 Introduction to watermarkingOriginal Research ArticlePages 157-169
Chapter 8 State-of-the-art in image and video watermarkingOriginal Research ArticlePages 171-203
Chapter 9 Low complexity watermarks for MPEG compressed videoOriginal Research ArticlePages 205-225
Chapter 10 Differential energy watermarks (DEW)Original Research ArticlePages 227-250
Chapter 11 Finding optimal parameters for the DEW algorithmOriginal Research ArticlePages 251-272
Chapter 12 Benchmarking the DEW watermarking algorithmOriginal Research ArticlePages 273-297
Bibliography-Part IIPages 299-309
Chapter 13 Information retrieval: An introductionOriginal Research ArticlePages 313-321
Chapter 14 Statistical framework for shot-boundary detectionOriginal Research ArticlePages 323-349
Chapter 15 Automatically abstracting video using key framesOriginal Research ArticlePages 351-378
Chapter 16 High-level video content analysisOriginal Research ArticlePages 379-412
Chapter 17 Compression trends: The “fourth criterion”Original Research ArticlePages 413-435
Bibliography-Part IIIPages 437-442
IndexPages 443-445