Introduction to Video Processing and Analysis Lecture
Nowadays, digital videos are everywhere and revolutionize very many domains, notably:
-Digital Media (video/movie) Content Production and Broadcasting,
-Social Media Streaming and Analytics (g., YouTube),
-Mobile computing and streaming
-Videoconferencing
-Medical/Biological/Dental Imaging and Diagnosis,
-Big Visual Data Analytics,
-Internet and Communications (media broadcasting, streaming).
-Scientific Imaging of any sort, e.g., Physics.
Furthermore, Video Processing and Analysis enables diverse applications, in unison with Computer Vision and Machine Learning:
-Autonomous Systems (cars, drones, vessels) Perception,
-Robotics Perception and Control,
-Intelligent Human-Machine Interaction,
-Anthropocentric (human-centered) Computing,
-Smart Cities/Buildings and Assisted living.
Visual Computing, encompassing Computer Vision and Video Processing and Analysis, coupled with AI (notably Machine Learning and Deep Neural Network) advances hit the news almost every day.

This lecture overviews Video Processing and Analysis that has many applications in digital TV, video streaming, video conferencing and social media, to mention a few applications. It covers the following topics in detail: Video sampling and digitization, Visual Moving Image Perception, Video filtering, Motion Estimation 2D visual object tracking, Video Compression, Video indexing and retrieval, Video Summarization, Video Captioning, Video description.