Abstract: A method for jockey and horse recognition and tracking. The method includes receiving input images or a sequence of images obtained from horse racing videos or video streams; extracting features from the images by computational methods; locating jockey and horse positions of a target horse in the images by the computational methods; deciding to accept or reject the computed jockey and horse positions according to an acceptance function; and producing the final jockey and horse positions and their associated information by an error correction algorithm.

Abstract: A method for jockey and horse recognition and tracking. The method includes receiving input images or a sequence of images obtained from horse racing videos or video streams; extracting features from the images by computational methods; locating jockey and horse positions of a target horse in the images by the computational methods; deciding to accept or reject the computed jockey and horse positions according to an acceptance function; and producing the final jockey and horse positions and their associated information by an error correction algorithm.

Abstract: A method for video coding with coding parameter reuse is provided as follows. A first video encoding process is executed with respect to a first video source for generating a first video stream by a first video encoder. First coding parameters are exported during the first video encoding process by the first video encoder. The first coding parameters are processed to generate second coding parameters by a parameter processor. A second video encoding process is executed with respect to a second video source for generating a second video stream by a second video encoder. The first and second video sources have different dynamic ranges from each other, and the second coding parameters are introduced into the second video encoding process.