Multimedia Image Processing Lab Experiment/Simulation

Image Processing in Multimedia Applications treats a number of critical topics in multimedia systems, with respect to image and video processing techniques and their implementations. These techniques include the Image and video compression techniques and standards, and Image and video indexing and retrieval techniques. Image Processing is an important tool to develop a Multimedia system design.

Video Caption Extraction Using Spatio-Temporal Slices

Captions in videos play an important role for video indexing and retrieval. In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm to extract multilingual captions from video. Our approach is based on the analysis of spatio-temporal slices of video. If the horizontal (or vertical) scan line contains some pixels of caption region then the corresponding spatio-temporal slice will have bar-code like patterns. By integrating the structure information of bar-code like patterns in horizontal and vertical slices, the spatial and temporal positions of video captions can be located accurately. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm is effective and outperforms some existing techniques.