@article {aRuiz-Hidalgo01,
	title = {Morphological tools for robust key-region extraction and video shot modeling},
	journal = {Lecture notes in computer science},
	year = {2001},
	pages = {407{\textendash}416},
	abstract = {<p style="text-align: justify;">In recent years, the use of multimedia content has experienced an exponential growth. In this context, the need of new image/video sequence representation is becoming a necessity for many applications. This paper deals with the structuring of video shots in terms\&nbsp;of various foreground key-regions and a background mosaic. Each key-region represents different foreground objects that appear through the\&nbsp;entire sequence in a similar manner the mosaic image represents the\&nbsp;background information of the complete sequence. We focus on the interest of morphological tools such as connected operators or watersheds\&nbsp;to perform the shot analysis and the computation of the key-regions and\&nbsp;the mosaic. It will be shown that morphological tools are particularly attractive to improve the robustness of the various steps of the algorithm.</p>},
	issn = {0302-9743},
	author = {Ruiz-Hidalgo, J. and Salembier, P.}
}
