Questions tagged [video-processing]
Algorithms for processing video signals i.e. sequence of images either for enhancements, conversions or analysis of objects within it.
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Defining the SNR or PSNR for color images (3 channel RGB files)
In image compression applications, I know that for an $8$-bit $0$ to $255$ level grayscale image the PSNR (peak signal to noise ratio) can be defined as:
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Can you do temporal frequency filtering for a spatially moving signal in image sequence?
Context :
A static camera captures video footage of a still indoor environment at given framerate (1080p@30fps or 720p@60fps)
A low power line laser projects a line shaped beam in the camera field of ...
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Map time/scene differences between two similar videos
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Given two videos that are episodes from series but in different format (one Bluray/one TV for example), map the time differences between the two (which scenes are not in one of the two) and be ...
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Does anyone know of an HDMI splitter that strips HDCP 2.2?
I am working on a project that requires an HDMI signal to be stripped of HDCP 2.2. I have looked into it, and there are a few HDMI splitters that can strip HDCP 1.4, but I am yet to see any that can ...
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Is there an algorithm in Matlab that could track moving objects that present change of color?
I'm studying the photomechanical behavior of photochromic thin films. They react to specific light wavelengths exhibiting bending movement. I use a yellow light, which turns the film from blue to ...
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2D to 3D view conversion
I came across this demo by Fox sports:
https://youtu.be/N9SxFf5WCb0
Where they show a player's view in a 360 space. Very smooth and nice.
I was wondering how do they achieve it without any cameras ...
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How virtual ads work in stadiums?
I was looking at a technology which enables virtual advertisement on the perimeter ads in soccer. It's relatively an old technology for a few years back, but I'm surprised to see the quality of it. ...
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Detect non rectangular bounding box for objects
I have a short video where a TV is shown. I need to detect the TV there (let's assume it's all pure black or it's covered with a green screen), and overlay a video on top of it on the same area. But ...
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Frame lookup using audio
I'm an animator trying to get a program that will use machine learning to automate the lip syncing process. The program I need made will have two files given to it: a seed, and an audio file.
The seed ...
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Removing the effects of camera motion in a video
I have frames of a video consisting of both a moving camera(translation, rotation, zooming in and out) as well as moving objects. I need to recover only the trajectory of objects which means I need to ...
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Confusions regarding frame rate?
We know that when many image are shown in succession they create illusion of video
But what is the minimum rate of frame/images so that still images appear as video?
In this case, images/frames are ...
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What is the best technique for underwater imaging?
I am currently researching what the best method to take underwater images/video is. The papers I have read go into several different methods: Lidar, Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS), optical camera plus ...
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Is it possible to calculate/estimate the storage space a certain duration of .mp4 video files will take up?
Is it possible to calculate/estimate the storage space a certain duration of .mp4 video files will take up? I have the resolution (eg. 4000 X 3000), the format (H.264 or H.265), the audio format (AAC) ...
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Algorithm for smoothing the output of an object detector operating on a video?
Please could you point me towards an algorithm that takes a series of object detections performed on a frame by frame basis as input and outputs a filtered series of object detections in which the ...
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How to calculate bitrate of PAL?
I have to calculate the bitrate of PAL format $\ (576*720) $. I have the following data:
$\ 25 $ frames per second
Interlaced
Interior representation is: $\ 4:2:0 $
$\ 8 $ bpp
I have tried the ...
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Fast and Slow motion video detection using Optical Flow
I'm trying to calculate a "video motion" value in a given video sequence, meaning how fast or slow motion the video is. For instance, if a video is about a car racing, the value is high. Whereas if ...
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Alternate Octave Commands for Matlab
can you tell me how to write video data to file..
what is the alternate of these 4 commands in octave
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Converting very short “motionless” video frames to single, better-resolved, images
I made a mistake with my newly bought compact camera, before a trip to Japan. Instead of taking single pictures, I ended up with a few short "MP4" video files (1 second, 2-3 frames). I could ...
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FFmpeg Block Motion Compensation Only
is there a way to just perform block motion compensation using ffmpeg command line (i.e. no addition of residual encodings). I want to compare the quality of the video frames produced using various ...
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Correlation between 2 signals of uneven dimensions
As a part of my work, I am trying to correlate the audio signal in a video with the pixels of each frame. The steps I follow are:
Audio sampling rate and frame rate of the video are known. So, ...
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Detection of Video Quality Using Python
I am getting started with image/video processing. As a start I have a dataset for which the goal is to detect the quality as the video progresses.
Based on my readings I think any video under test ...
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RF demodulation for dummies
Given a signal that's been FM encoded on a carrier wave, what are the individual steps I need to take to demodulate it, and recover the original signal?
I don't have a background in signal processing,...
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Interpolation of audio for new frames
I am trying to upsample a video by existing frame interpolation techniques. In the process, I realize that I also need to interpolate the audio signal for the new frames so that the audio signal is in ...
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How can I convert raw pixel data to AVI video?
I have series of gray-scale 8-bit frames and I want to convert them into AVI video. How can I do this? Is there any existing converting utils or products for this type of task? I even do not ...
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Decoding a video signal, how to get frame output to matrix for calculations?
I'd like to use python to take a video (eventually a stream) and map each frame to an RGB array of pixels.
My first thought was to use ffmpeg bindings, and in memory (if possible) convert it to png ...
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How to Find the Probability of Kalman Filter States?
I am working on a video object tracking problem. I am using Kalman filter to predict and correct the object position return by an algorithm such as CamShift. I want to adjust the likelihood ...
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How we can show that 2 correlated videos are similar?
Can I tell that different versions of the same video are correlated to each other?
and if so, how can I show this correlation? for example,
high-quality and poor-quality versions of the same video.
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Is signal processing used in block matching algorithms
I'm working on a custom video codec which uses the standard mean squared error to find blocks.
As explained by this youtube video you choose a search area size to find a block in. Each pixel of the ...
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How Can I Remove Flickering Background in a Video?
I have a black and white video taken with a high speed camera and I notice a background flickering coming from my LED light. The images alternate from dim to bright and it makes the videos quite ...
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API/ Library for re-orienting 360 degree camera frame efficiently
I am trying to correct the orientation of a 360 degree camera frame using roll, pitch and yaw estimates coming from my C++ Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) code. I am interested in using libraries and ...
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How to use optical character recognition program to read coins? [closed]
I had a friend that goes through my pennies trying to find valuable rare pennies. Instead of looking at each one could a optical character recognition program be used to flag coins?
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How to recognize for small video sequence with a large sequence?
I'm working on the idea of recognizing a small video sequence (a sequence of 18 seconds) within a long one (a sequence of 15 minutes), the first idea that come to mind stats that I have to ...
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temporal high-pass filtering to approximate phase derivative
I am currently following the algorithm as based on a previously published research article "A Motion Detection Algorithm Using Local Phase Information" by Lazar et al. The basic overview of the ...
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Video processing to detect a logo in frames
I am trying to detect a TV channel logo inside a video file, so simply given an input .mp4 video, detect if it has that logo present in all (or most) of frames or not (or maybe what percentage of ...
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Does the cv2.waitKey argument determine the frame-rate while capturing a video?
Kinda new to image processing, so pardon me if the question is too stupid.
Using the library cv2 in python to capture video from my webcam, which, so far as I can see as a programmer, is basically ...
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Measure the amount of drift in video and audio frames
I setup a stereo system using 2 GoPro Hero Session Cameras, since I need a larger baseline than the one of the Dual Hero System.
This unfortunately means the two cameras are not ...
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Identifying license plate number of a thief's car from a Picture [closed]
I recently had the mail in my mailbox stolen from my home. I caught the whole thing on video and was able to identify the woman. Just a few days after the mail theft incident I went into a local post ...
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Video stitching for static scene (infinite loop video)
I have a video that is a panoramic video of a static scene. Just to be clear, I am not talking about a spherical 360° degree video but a video that starts in some direction and then does a full 360 ...
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Video: Who crossed the finishline first?
Okey, so there was a boat race during the weekend. It was a very tight race, but a few minutes after the race, the green boat was declared winner.
Given only this video images, how can they ...
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Video stabilization using Lucas-Kanade method
I got an assignment in a video processing course - to stabilize a video using the Lucas-Kanade method. Assuming the matlab code I wrote for performing LK on 2 images works (i.e, I can get the optical ...
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Shot boundary detection using SVM's
I'm trying to do shot boundary detection using SVM's.
I'm differentiating between 3 shots, cut, fade and dissolve + (normal frames).
I had used two features, shannon's entropy and variance, it gave ...
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Want to do shot boundary detection via SVM, what are some good features?
I want to do shot boundary detection via SVM's.
I'm dividing the frame into nxn blocks. Per block I'm finding these features:
shannons entropy
edges (H,V,Diag)
standard deviation
for consecutive ...
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Looking for a file format for lane detection
I am trying to extract lane boundary lines from two recorded video cameras on the sides of the vehicle. I would ultimately like to calculate lane position from those boundaries.
My thought process is:...
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How Can an Object Move by Less Than a Pixel Between Two Consecutive Frames?
I think video is a series of picture frames. Consider a black & white scenario (no RGB). A picture frame is a 2D array of pixel. Each pixel has a single color.
A pixel can't be half black or half ...
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How to find Sampling frequency of a video signal
i took the Digital Image processing subject in college and i am a little confused that how i can find out sampling frequency of a video signal given its bandwidth. For example what will be the ...
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Video compression - why not just sending the changed parts?
I'm trying to understand how video compression through dense optical flow works (I'm a newbie with video compression).
I easily understood what optical flow is, the thing I can't understand is why a ...
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Pixel Wise Write into a Video File in MATLAB
A video file (in .ptw format) is read in MATLAB in the form of a 3 dimensional matrix (a structured format). My aim is to process the video in time domain on each coordinate pixel individually and ...
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How to Reduce Noise in a Video Stream?
I've been using Open Broadcaster to stream the infrared HDMI output from a 4K Sony video camera. It works pretty well, but one thing that I'm finding a little annoying for image analysis is the ...
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opencv camshift algorithm
I got a lab report to make in an image processing course in my university, and I was asked a question about the OpenCV camshift algorithm (for video tracking):
the camshift algorithm works on the hue ...
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Can deep learning be applied to video compression?
H.265 is based on incremental gains over time. The paradigms have largely remained the same. What are the odds of deep learning providing huge performance gains? Here is the main metric:
Perceptual ...
