New Image/Video Media and It's Application. Generation and Applications of Abstract Index Images from Moving Image Sequences.

This paper proposes the concept of hierarchical representation of scenes and of abstract index images from the viewpoint of the abstraction of the image contents. Abstract index images show the outline of the original sequence, and can be applied to facilitate tasks such as coding, editing, and summarizing the essence of image sequences. To generate abstract index images, we have developed a new method based on shape decomposition with primitive figures. The use of primitive figures enables a compact description that contains the general structural information. We also investigate applications which utilize abstract index images.