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Title: A method and apparatus for multi-view video coding.
Creator: Furht, Borko, Kalva, Hari
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/332895
Subject Headings: Digital video.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A patent application for the invention of a method and apparatus for multi-view video coding.
Creator: Furht, Borko, Kalva, Hari
Date Issued: 2005-09-15
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/363494
Subject Headings: Digital video., Technology --Patents., Video compression.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Interactive system for visualization and retrieval of video data.
Creator: Furht, Borko
Date Issued: 2005-09-15
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/366423
Subject Headings: Digital video., Video compression., Technology --Patents.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Background of the invention: an interactive system for visualization and retrieval of video data.
Creator: Furht, Borko
Date Issued: 2005
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/366425
Subject Headings: Technology --Patents., Video compression., Digital video.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The magic of hypercube: from parallel computing to multimedia.
Creator: Furht, Borko
Date Issued: 2009-07
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/332893
Subject Headings: Computer science --Research., Digital video.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Complexity reduction tools for MPEG-2 to H.264 video transcoding.
Creator: Furht, Borko, Kalva, Hari, Petljanski, Branko
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/332412
Subject Headings: Digital video., Video recording --Standards., MPEG (Video coding standard)., Digital communications.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A improved video codec supporting error resilience and resource adaptation.
Creator: Furht, Borko, Sanigepalli, Praveen, Kalva, Hari
Date Issued: 2005-01-8 - 2005-01-12
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/351015
Subject Headings: MPEG (Video coding standard), Digital video., Mobile communication systems.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Enhancing video quality based on psychophysical studies of smooth pursuit eye movements.
Creator: Chilamakuri, Pavani., Florida Atlantic University, Furht, Borko, Glenn, William E., College of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Abstract/Description: When motion occurs in a scene, the quality of video degrades due to motion smear, which results in a loss of contrast in the image. The characteristics of the human vision system when smooth pursuit eye movements occur are different from those when the eye fixates on an object such as a video screen during motion. Smooth pursuit eye movements dominate in the presence of dynamic stimuli. In the presence of smooth pursuit eye movements, the contrast sensitivity for increasing target velocities...
Show moreWhen motion occurs in a scene, the quality of video degrades due to motion smear, which results in a loss of contrast in the image. The characteristics of the human vision system when smooth pursuit eye movements occur are different from those when the eye fixates on an object such as a video screen during motion. Smooth pursuit eye movements dominate in the presence of dynamic stimuli. In the presence of smooth pursuit eye movements, the contrast sensitivity for increasing target velocities shifts toward lower spatial frequencies. The sensitivity for low spatial frequencies during motion is higher than for a stationary case. This dissertation will propose a method to improve the perceptual quality of video using temporal enhancement prefiltering technique based on the characteristics of Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements (SPEM). The resulting technique closely matches the characteristics of the human visual system (HVS). When motion occurs, the eye tracks the moving targets in a scene as opposed to fixating on any portion of the scene. Hence, psychophysical studies of smooth pursuit eye movements were used as a basis to design the temporal filters. Results of experiments show that temporal enhancement results in improved quality by increasing the apparent sharpness of the image sequence. In this dissertation, a study of research describing how motion affects the image quality at the camera lens and the human eye is presented. This dissertation uses that research to develop a temporal enhancement technique to improve the quality of video degraded by motion.
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Date Issued: 2003
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT12035
Subject Headings: Eye--Movements, Digital video, Visual perception, Video compression
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Video identification using video tomography.
Creator: Furht, Borko, Kalva, Hari, Leon, Gustavo, Yellamraju, Sivakiran
Date Issued: 2009
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/347362
Subject Headings: Multimedia systems --Security measures., Digital watermarks., Digital video.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Characterization and performance evaluation of video conference traffic in ATM networks.
Creator: Nayak, Chandrika Narayana., Florida Atlantic University, Ilyas, Mohammad, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Abstract/Description: In order to effectively transport digital compressed video over Broadband Integrated Services Digital Networks (B-ISDN) with Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), the characteristics of the video source traffic should be understood. The nature of the video traffic depends primarily on the source, the content of the video and the coding algorithm that removes redundancies for efficient transmission over networks. In this study, video conference data encoded using a subband coding scheme, Digital...
Show moreIn order to effectively transport digital compressed video over Broadband Integrated Services Digital Networks (B-ISDN) with Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), the characteristics of the video source traffic should be understood. The nature of the video traffic depends primarily on the source, the content of the video and the coding algorithm that removes redundancies for efficient transmission over networks. In this study, video conference data encoded using a subband coding scheme, Digital Video Compression System (DVCS), is analyzed to determine its characteristics. Several video traffic sources are multiplexed through an ATM network node with limited capacity and the performance of this environment is evaluated by using a simulation technique. The simulation results are presented for the performance measures for varying traffic and network conditions.
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Date Issued: 1995
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15166
Subject Headings: Broadband communications systems, Integrated services digital networks, Asynchronous transfer mode, Digital video, Video compression
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Evaluation of 3DTV service using asymmetirc view coding based in MPEG-2.
Creator: Furht, Borko, Kalva, Hari, Christodoulou, Lakis
Abstract/Description: This paper presents the results of the 3DTV quality evaluation on autostereoscopic displays using asymmetric view coding. Asymmetric view coding encodes the stereo views with different quality. It has been shown that the human visual system is able to compensate for this asymmetric view quality and present a good quality 3D video. Asymmetric video coding can be exploited to reduce the bandwidth requirements for 3DTV services. The key factors that affect the asymmetric video coding are the...
Show moreThis paper presents the results of the 3DTV quality evaluation on autostereoscopic displays using asymmetric view coding. Asymmetric view coding encodes the stereo views with different quality. It has been shown that the human visual system is able to compensate for this asymmetric view quality and present a good quality 3D video. Asymmetric video coding can be exploited to reduce the bandwidth requirements for 3DTV services. The key factors that affect the asymmetric video coding are the compression algorithms, the human visual system, and the 3D display.
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Date Issued: 2007-05-07 - 2007-05-09
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/358266
Subject Headings: MPEG (Video coding standard), Three-dimensional display systems., Video compression., Digital video.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Methods and Algorithms for Human Detection in Video Sequences.
Creator: Pertuz, Carlos, Marques, Oge, Florida Atlantic University, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Abstract/Description: Lower prices of video sensors, security concerns and the need for better and faster algorithms to extract high level information from video sequences are all factors which have stimulated research in the area of automated video surveillance systems. In the context of security the analysis of human interrelations and their environment provides hints to proactively identify anomalous behavior. However, human detection is a necessary component in systems where the automatic extraction of higher...
Show moreLower prices of video sensors, security concerns and the need for better and faster algorithms to extract high level information from video sequences are all factors which have stimulated research in the area of automated video surveillance systems. In the context of security the analysis of human interrelations and their environment provides hints to proactively identify anomalous behavior. However, human detection is a necessary component in systems where the automatic extraction of higher level information, such as recognizing individuals' activities, is required. The human detection problem is one of classification. In general, motion, appearance and shape are the classification approaches a system can employ to perform human detection. Techniques representative of these approaches, such us periodic motion detection, skin color detection and MPEG-7 shape descriptors are implemented in this work. An infrastructure that allows data collection for such techniques was also implemented.
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Date Issued: 2007
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00012538
Subject Headings: MPEG (Video coding standard), Image processing--Digital techniques, Form perception, Computer algorithms, Video compression
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: New approaches to encryption and steganography for digital videos.
Creator: Furht, Borko, Socek, Daniel, Kalva, Hari, Magliveras, Spyros S., Marques, Oge, Culibrk, Dubravko
Date Issued: 2007
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/337435
Subject Headings: Multimedia systems --Security measures., Digital video., Digital watermarking., Data encryption (Computer science) --Technological innovations., Cryptography.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Exploiting audiovisual attention for visual coding.
Creator: Torres, Freddy., College of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Abstract/Description: Perceptual video coding has been a promising area during the last years. Increases in compression ratios have been reported by applying foveated video coding techniques where the region of interest (ROI) is selected by using a computational attention model. However, most of the approaches for perceptual video coding only use visual features ignoring the auditory component. In recent physiological studies, it has been demonstrated that auditory stimuli affects our visual perception. In this...
Show morePerceptual video coding has been a promising area during the last years. Increases in compression ratios have been reported by applying foveated video coding techniques where the region of interest (ROI) is selected by using a computational attention model. However, most of the approaches for perceptual video coding only use visual features ignoring the auditory component. In recent physiological studies, it has been demonstrated that auditory stimuli affects our visual perception. In this work, we validate some of those physiological tests using complex video sequence. We designed and developed a web-based tool for video quality measurement. After conducting different experiments, we observed that in the general reaction time to detect video artifacts was higher when video was presented with the audio information. We observed that emotional information in audio guide human attention to particular ROI. We also observed that sound frequency change spatial frequency perception in still images.
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Date Issued: 2013
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3361251
Subject Headings: Digital video, Image processing, Digital techniques, Visual perception, Coding theory, Human-computer interaction, Intersensory effects
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: HEVC optimization in mobile environments.
Creator: Garcia, Ray, Kalva, Hari, Florida Atlantic University, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Abstract/Description: Recently, multimedia applications and their use have grown dramatically in popularity in strong part due to mobile device adoption by the consumer market. Applications, such as video conferencing, have gained popularity. These applications and others have a strong video component that uses the mobile device’s resources. These resources include processing time, network bandwidth, memory use, and battery life. The goal is to reduce the need of these resources by reducing the complexity of the...
Show moreRecently, multimedia applications and their use have grown dramatically in popularity in strong part due to mobile device adoption by the consumer market. Applications, such as video conferencing, have gained popularity. These applications and others have a strong video component that uses the mobile device’s resources. These resources include processing time, network bandwidth, memory use, and battery life. The goal is to reduce the need of these resources by reducing the complexity of the coding process. Mobile devices offer unique characteristics that can be exploited for optimizing video codecs. The combination of small display size, video resolution, and human vision factors, such as acuity, allow encoder optimizations that will not (or minimally) impact subjective quality. The focus of this dissertation is optimizing video services in mobile environments. Industry has begun migrating from H.264 video coding to a more resource intensive but compression efficient High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC). However, there has been no proper evaluation and optimization of HEVC for mobile environments. Subjective quality evaluations were performed to assess relative quality between H.264 and HEVC. This will allow for better use of device resources and migration to new codecs where it is most useful. Complexity of HEVC is a significant barrier to adoption on mobile devices and complexity reduction methods are necessary. Optimal use of encoding options is needed to maximize quality and compression while minimizing encoding time. Methods for optimizing coding mode selection for HEVC were developed. Complexity of HEVC encoding can be further reduced by exploiting the mismatch between the resolution of the video, resolution of the mobile display, and the ability of the human eyes to acquire and process video under these conditions. The perceptual optimizations developed in this dissertation use the properties of spatial (visual acuity) and temporal information processing (motion perception) to reduce the complexity of HEVC encoding. A unique feature of the proposed methods is that they reduce encoding complexity and encoding time. The proposed HEVC encoder optimization methods reduced encoding time by 21.7% and bitrate by 13.4% with insignificant impact on subjective quality evaluations. These methods can easily be implemented today within HEVC.
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Date Issued: 2014
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004112
Subject Headings: Coding theory, Digital coding -- Data processing, Image processing -- Digital techniques, Multimedia systems, Video compression
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: XYZ Video Compression: An algorithm for real-time compression of motion video based upon the three-dimensional discrete cosine transform.
Creator: Westwater, Raymond John., Florida Atlantic University, Furht, Borko, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Abstract/Description: XYZ Video Compression denotes a video compression algorithm that operates in three dimensions, without the overhead of motion estimation. The smaller overhead of this algorithm as compared to MPEG and other "standards-based" compression algorithms using motion estimation suggests the suitability of this algorithm to real-time applications. The demonstrated results of compression of standard motion video benchmarks suggest that XYZ Video Compression is not only a faster algorithm, but develops...
Show moreXYZ Video Compression denotes a video compression algorithm that operates in three dimensions, without the overhead of motion estimation. The smaller overhead of this algorithm as compared to MPEG and other "standards-based" compression algorithms using motion estimation suggests the suitability of this algorithm to real-time applications. The demonstrated results of compression of standard motion video benchmarks suggest that XYZ Video Compression is not only a faster algorithm, but develops superior compression ratios as well. The algorithm is based upon the three-dimensional Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT). Pixels are organized as 8 x 8 x 8 cubes by taking 8 x 8 squares out of 8 consecutive frames. A fast three-dimensional transform is applied to each cube, generating 512 DCT coefficients. The energy-packing property of the DCT concentrates the energy in the cube into few coefficients. The DCT coefficients are quantized to maximize the energy concentration at the expense of introduction of a user-determined level of error. A method of adaptive quantization that generates optimal quantizers based upon statistics gathered for the 8 consecutive frames is described. The sensitivity of the human eye to various DCT coefficients is used to modify the quantizers to create a "visually equivalent" cube with still greater energy concentration. Experiments are described that justify choice of Human Visual System factors to be folded into the quantization step. The quantized coefficients are then encoded into a data stream using a method of entropy coding based upon the statistics of the quantized coefficients. The bitstream generated by entropy coding represents the compressed data of the 8 motion video frames, and typically will be compressed at 50:1 at 5% error. The decoding process is the reverse of the encoding process: the bitstream is decoded to generate blocks of quantized DCT coefficients, the DCT coefficients are dequantized, and the Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform is performed on the cube to recover pixel data suitable for display. The elegance of this technique lies in its simplicity, which lends itself to inexpensive implementation of both encoder and decoder. Finally, real-time implementation of the XYZ Compressor/Decompressor is discussed. Experiments are run to determine the effectiveness of the implementation.
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Date Issued: 1996
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12450
Subject Headings: Digital video, Data compression (Telecommunication), Image processing--Digital techniques, Coding theory
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Title: Innovative video error resilient techniques for MBMS systems.
Creator: Sanigepalli, Praveen., Florida Atlantic University, Kalva, Hari, Furht, Borko, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Abstract/Description: In the current communications age, the capabilities of mobile devices are increasing. The mobiles are capable of communicating at data rates of hundreds of mbps on 4G networks. This enables playback of rich multimedia content comparable to internet and television networks. However, mobile networks need to be spectrum-efficient to be affordable to users. Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Systems (MBMS) is a wireless broadcasting standard that is being drafted to enable multimedia broadcast while...
Show moreIn the current communications age, the capabilities of mobile devices are increasing. The mobiles are capable of communicating at data rates of hundreds of mbps on 4G networks. This enables playback of rich multimedia content comparable to internet and television networks. However, mobile networks need to be spectrum-efficient to be affordable to users. Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Systems (MBMS) is a wireless broadcasting standard that is being drafted to enable multimedia broadcast while focusing on being spectrum-efficient. The hybrid video coding techniques facilitate low bitrate transmission, but result in dependencies across frames. With a mobile environment being error prone, no error correction technique can guarantee error free transmission. Such errors propagate, resulting in quality degradation. With numerous mobiles sharing the broadcast session, any error resilient scheme should account for heterogeneous device capabilities and channel conditions. The current research on wireless video broadcasting focuses on network based techniques such as FEC and retransmissions, which add bandwidth overhead. There is a need to design innovative error resilient techniques that make video codec robust with minimal bandwidth overhead. This Dissertation introduces novel techniques in the area of MBMS systems. First, robust video structures are proposed in Periodic Intra Frame based Prediction (PIFBP) and Periodic Anchor Frame based Prediction (PAFBP) schemes. In these schemes, the Intra frames or anchor frames serve as reference frames for prediction during GOP period. The intermediate frames are independent of others; any errors in such frames are not propagated, thereby resulting in error resilience. In prior art, intra block rate is adapted based on the channel characteristics for error resilience. This scheme has been generalized in multicasting to address a group of users sharing the same session. Average packet loss is used to determine the intra block rate. This improves performance of the overall group and strives for consistent performance. Also, the inherent diversity in the broadcasting session can be used for its advantage. With mobile devices capable of accessing a WLAN during broadcast, they form an adhoc network on a WLAN to recover lost packets. New error recovery schemes are proposed for error recovery and their performance comparison is presented.
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Date Issued: 2005
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12187
Subject Headings: Wireless communication systems, Signal processing, Digital video, Multimedia systems, Digital communications, Data transmission systems
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Event detection in surveillance video.
Creator: Castellanos Jimenez, Ricardo Augusto., College of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Abstract/Description: Digital video is being used widely in a variety of applications such as entertainment, surveillance and security. Large amount of video in surveillance and security requires systems capable to processing video to automatically detect and recognize events to alleviate the load on humans and enable preventive actions when events are detected. The main objective of this work is the analysis of computer vision techniques and algorithms used to perform automatic detection of events in video...
Show moreDigital video is being used widely in a variety of applications such as entertainment, surveillance and security. Large amount of video in surveillance and security requires systems capable to processing video to automatically detect and recognize events to alleviate the load on humans and enable preventive actions when events are detected. The main objective of this work is the analysis of computer vision techniques and algorithms used to perform automatic detection of events in video sequences. This thesis presents a surveillance system based on optical flow and background subtraction concepts to detect events based on a motion analysis, using an event probability zone definition. Advantages, limitations, capabilities and possible solution alternatives are also discussed. The result is a system capable of detecting events of objects moving in opposing direction to a predefined condition or running in the scene, with precision greater than 50% and recall greater than 80%.
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Date Issued: 2010
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/1870694
Subject Headings: Computer systems, Security measures, Image processing, Digital techniques, Imaging systems, Mathematical models, Pattern recognition systems, Computer vision, Digital video
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A hybrid color‐based foreground object detection method for automated marine surveillance.
Creator: Furht, Borko, Kalva, Hari, Marques, Oge, Culibrk, Dubravko, Socek, Daniel
Date Issued: 2005
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/358420
Subject Headings: Computer vision., Automatic tracking., Digital video., Image processing., Optical pattern recognition.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Multimedia broadcasting over the internet: part 2- video compression.
Creator: Furht, Borko, Westwater, Raymond, Ice, Jeffrey
Date Issued: 1999
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/337433
Subject Headings: Multimedia systems., Broadcasting --Technological innovations., Digital video., Webcasting., Internet Protocol multimedia subsystem.
Format: Document (PDF)

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