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For the purposes of foreground estimation, the true background model is unavailable in many practical circumstances and needs to be estimated from cluttered image sequences. We propose a sequential technique for static background estimation in such conditions, with low computational and memory requirements. Image sequences are analysed on a block-by-block basis. For each block location a representative set is maintained which contains distinct blocks obtained along its temporal line.

Expanded version of the Guest Editorial
for Special Issue on Signal Processing for Art Investigation
(IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, July 2015)

Include short summaries for each of the 11 articles in the special issue.

We propose an adaptive tracking algorithm where the object is modelled as a continuously updated bag of affine subspaces, with each subspace constructed from the object's appearance over several consecutive frames. In contrast to linear subspaces, affine subspaces explicitly model the origin of subspaces. Furthermore, instead of using a brittle point-to-subspace distance during the search for the object in a new frame, we propose to use a subspace-to-subspace distance by representing candidate image areas also as affine subspaces.

Recent years have witnessed tremendous growth in the generation and consumption of digital images. Monitoring and evaluating image quality is an important issue for online and mobile media applications. Conventional quality assessment work mostly focus on intensity level distortion caused by operations that do not change image aspect ratio/size, such as distortion caused by compression, noise, and blurring. Here, we study the problem of quality assessment for images undergone content-adaptive resizing, also known as retargeting operations.