NEW JERSEY CENTER FOR MULTIMEDIA RESEARCH THE NORTH JERSEY CHAPTER OF THE IEEE COMMUNICATIONS SOCIETY THE CENTER FOR COMMUNICATIONS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING RESEARCH Present OBJECT-BASED VIDEO: COMPRESSION, MANIPULATION, AND INDEXING by PROF. A. MURAT TEKALP DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND CENTER FOR ELECTRONIC IMAGING SYSTEMS UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER, ROCHESTER, NEW YORK 14627 When: Monday December 2, 1996 REFRESHMENTS: 11:15 A.M. SEMINAR: 11:30 A.M. Where: 202 ECEC, New Jersey Institute of Technology ABSTRACT Digital video not only enables convergence of telecommunications, computer, broadcasting, and entertainment industries but also leads to a paradigm shift in how we capture/industries but also leads to a paradigm shift in how we capture/compose, compress, manipulate, and access video for interactive services. Conventional (analog) video is frame-based where the composition and script is fixed at the time of recording which limits our interaction with natural video. Digital video allowslimits our interaction with natural video. Digital video allows recording and compression of video objects separately (in time and place) and then composition of frames for viewing at the decoder after manipulation according to a downloaded customized script or interactively. Object-based video also enables combid script or interactively. Object-based video also enables combination of synthetic scenes or objects with natural scenes or objects; manipulation of the content of video objects; hyperlinking text or graphics overlays with video objects; temporal random access to video objects; and object-based multimedia access fm access to video objects; and object-based multimedia access for indexing, querying and browsing. This talk will overview the emerging object-based video compression, manipulation, and access technologies; and introduce 2-D and 3-D object-based forward-tracking mesh representations. BIOGRAPHY A. Murat Tekalp received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY, in 1982 and 1984, respectively. From Dec. 1984 to Aug. 1987, he was a research scientist, and then a senior research scientist at Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY. He joined the Electrical Engineering Dept. at the University of Rocjoined the Electrical Engineering Dept. at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, as an assistant professor in Sep. 1987, where he is currently a professor. His current research interests are in the areas of digital image and video processing, including image restoration, motion analysis, object-tracking, modeluding image restoration, motion analysis, object-tracking, model-based coding, 3-D video, automatic image annotation and retrieval, and magnetic resonance imaging. Dr. Tekalp is a senior member of IEEE, and a member of Sigma Xi. He received the NSF Research Initiation Award in 1988, and an IEEE Region 1 Award in 199arch Initiation Award in 1988, and an IEEE Region 1 Award in 1995. He served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (1990-1992). He also served as the Technical Program Chair for the 1991 IEEE MDSP Workshop and the Special Sessions Chair for 1995 IEEE Intl. Conf. on Image Processing. Sessions Chair for 1995 IEEE Intl. Conf. on Image Processing. He has been the organizer and first Chairman of the Rochester Chapter of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He was elected as the Chair of the IEEE Rochester Section in 1994-1995. At present, he is the Chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technic, he is the Chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committee on Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing; and an Associate Editor for IEEE Trans. on Image Processing. He is also on the Editorial Boards of Academic Journal on Graphical Models and Image Processing and Academic Journal on Visual Coal Models and Image Processing and Academic Journal on Visual Communications and Image Representation. He is the author of the Prentice-Hall book Digital Video Processing. PLEASE POST For more information, contact N. Ansari, (201) 596-3670, ang@faraday.njit.edu; or Z. Siveski, (201) 596-5710, zoran@njit.edu WWW: .njit.edu; or Z. Siveski, (201) 596-5710, zoran@njit.edu WWW: http://megahertz.njit.edu/~ieeenj