Scalable reduced dimension object segmentation based on wavelet

Scalable reduced dimension object segmentation (SRDOS) based on wavelet is presented in this paper. SRDOS algorithm is taken advantage of the characteristic of wavelet coefficients multiresolution in the same direction, which makes SRDOS be applied to detect the video object of a reduced dimension image with much lower complexity and more sufficient accuracy. It is also important that SRDOS may be a multiresolution object segmentation algorithm based on wavelet transform. So SRDOS is a fast and efficient object segmentation algorithm. The proposed algorithm has been successfully integrated with our video object based wavelet color image coding algorithm.

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