Title
Robust background identification for dynamic video editing.
Abstract
Extracting background features for estimating the camera path is a key step in many video editing and enhancement applications. Existing approaches often fail on highly dynamic videos that are shot by moving cameras and contain severe foreground occlusion. Based on existing theories, we present a new, practical method that can reliably identify background features in complex video, leading to accurate camera path estimation and background layering. Our approach contains a local motion analysis step and a global optimization step. We first divide the input video into overlapping temporal windows, and extract local motion clusters in each window. We form a directed graph from these local clusters, and identify background ones by finding a minimal path through the graph using optimization. We show that our method significantly outperforms other alternatives, and can be directly used to improve common video editing applications such as stabilization, compositing and background reconstruction.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1145/2980179.2980243
ACM Trans. Graph.
Keywords
Field
DocType
Feature point trajectory,background detection,video enhancement,video stabilization,camera path estimation
Graph,Computer vision,Computer graphics (images),Global optimization,Computer science,Image stabilization,Directed graph,Video tracking,Video editing,Artificial intelligence,Motion analysis,Compositing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
35
6
0730-0301
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
9
0.49
53
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fang-Lue Zhang126915.60
Xian Wu2183.00
Hao-Tian Zhang3232.43
Jue Wang42871155.89
Shi-Min Hu53466188.22