Abstract: A method displays an output image on an object. A set of unique markers are fixed to the object at predetermined locations. An input image of the object and the markers is acquired with a camera in a fixed physical relationship to a projector. A pose of the projector with respect to the markers is determined from the image. Then, one or more output images related to the object can be projected onto the object, at predetermine locations, according to the pose of the projector and the unique markers.

Abstract: A method encodes a video by first measuring a variance of pixel intensities in a current frame. A number of bits to encode the current frame is assigned according to rate and buffer fullness constraints. A multiplier value is determined directly as a function of only the variance and the number of bits assigned to the current frame. Motion vectors between a reference frame and the current frame are estimated, and a sum of absolute difference (SAD) is based on a motion compensated residual between the reference frame and the current frame. An encoding mode is determined for each macro block in the current frame based on the sum of absolute difference, the motion vectors and the multiplier value. Then, the motion compensated residual is encoded based on the encoding mode, multiplier value and the number of allocated bits.

Abstract: A method segments a video into objects, without user assistance. An MPEG compressed video is converted to a structure called a pseudo spatial/temporal data using DCT coefficients and motion vectors. The compressed video is first parsed and the pseudo spatial/temporal data are formed. Seeds macro-blocks are identified using, e.g., the DCT coefficients and changes in the motion vector of macro-blocks. A video volume is “grown” around each seed macro-block using the DCT coefficients and motion distance criteria. Self-descriptors are assigned to the volume, and mutual descriptors are assigned to pairs of similar volumes. These descriptors capture motion and spatial information of the volumes. Similarity scores are determined for each possible pair-wise combination of volumes. The pair of volumes that gives the largest score is combined iteratively. In the combining stage, volumes are classified and represented in a multi-resolution coarse-to-fine hierarchy of video objects.

Abstract: A method and system transmits a stream of data symbols in a multiple-input/multiple-output wireless communications system that includes M pairs of transmitting antennas. The stream of data symbols are demultiplexed into M sub-streams and adaptively modulated and coded to a maximum data rate while achieving a predetermine performance on an associated channel used to transmit the sub-stream. Space-time transmit diversity encoding is applied to each coded sub-stream to generate two output streams, one output stream for each antenna.