Efficient Lossy Contour Coding Using Spatio-Temporal Consistency

This paper deals with the problem of lossy video object shape coding. This problem belongs to the area of video object-based coder. Our approach proposes to exploit spatio temporal correla- tion. This is done by considering the contour evolution and dealing with occultation phenomenon. The novelty lies in a fine mapping of consecutive contours and in the contour padding in