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Slow motion replay of video sequences using fractal zooming

02/2005; DOI:10.1109/ICCE.2005.1429794 ISBN: 0-7803-8838-0 pp.215- 216 In proceeding of: Consumer Electronics, 2005. ICCE. 2005 Digest of Technical Papers. International Conference on
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ABSTRACT The purpose of This work is to present a technique combining fractals and wavelet transform to obtain a selectively pleasant zoom and slow motion of digital video sequences. Active scene detection and post processing are used to reduce computational cost and improve visual quality respectively.

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Keywords

Active scene detection
 
computational cost
 
digital video sequences
 
fractals
 
post processing
 
selectively pleasant