PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE, cilt.86, sa.6, ss.1029-1051, 1998 (SCI-Expanded)
This paper first provides an overview of two-dimensional (2-D) and three-dimensional mesh models for digital video processing. It then introduces 2-D mesh-based modeling of video objects as a compact representation of motion and shape for interactive, synthetic/natural video manipulation, compression, and indexing. The 2-D mesh representation and the mesh geometry and motion compression have recently been included in the visual tools of rite upcoming MPEG-4 standard. Functionalities enabled by 2-D mesh-based visual object representation include animation of still texture maps, transfiguration of video overlays video morphing, and shape-and motion-based retrieval of video objects.