Patent ID: 7450758
Filing Date: 2008-11-11
Classification: G06K,G06T,G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable instructions for stylizing video, the video comprising a plurality of frames, comprises: determining a plurality of volumetric objects by mean shift video segmentation, each volumetric object being a segment comprising a plurality of pixels; indicating on a subset of frames of the plurality of frames, defining keyframes, how a subset of the plurality of segments should be merged into a semantic region; and interpolating indication between the keyframes by a mean shift constrained interpolation technique to propagate the indication to frame between keyframes, wherein the mean shift constrained interpolation technique comprises: for each frame between the keyframes, marking pixels that are fully surrounded by pixels contained in the volumetric object; and for each segment outside of said segment subset having a majority of pixels being marked, adding the segment to the semantic region.