THE FUTURE OF CONTENT-BASED VIDEO PROCESSING - Video Object Extraction and Representation: Theory and Applications - page 155

Chapter 7
THE FUTURE OF CONTENT-BASED
VIDEO PROCESSING
To me, the great hope is that now these 8mm video recorders come out,
just some people who wouldn't normally make movies are making movies.
Suddenly, one day, some little fat girl in Ohio is going to be the next Mozart
and make a beautiful film with her father's 8mm. For once, the real profes-
sionalism of movies will be destroyed and it will become an art form.
- Francis Ford Coppola
This research extends the domain of computer functionality from data
to content via the technologies of content-based information processing
(specifically, video processing). Currently, computers support the tasks
of transporting and processing data: computing functions or doing repet-
itive regimented tasks. In the future, we foresee computers as experts
at manipulating and processing content, making intelligent decisions on
presenting, saving, searching or processing content. We have presented
two distinct systems for video object extraction and representation in
support of MPEG-4 and MPEG-7 standards, respectively. These sys-
tems are the first steps in the theoretical and algorithmic infrastructure
for content-based information processing. Content-based information
processing enables computers to recognize and sift content and, conse-
quently, to maximize all resources w.r.t. content: storage, computation,
and communication.
In these sections, we propose some future applications and research
areas for content-based video processing.
1. UNIVERSAL MULTIMEDIA ACCESS
Content-based information processing allows computers to optimize
subjective presentation of video content w.r.t. viewer resources. This
application in the MPEG-7 standard is supported by Universal Multime-