%0 Journal Article %A Prabhudev Hosur and Rolando Carrasco %D 2007 %J International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering %B World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology %I Open Science Index 5, 2007 %T Enhanced Frame-based Video Coding to Support Content-based Functionalities %U https://publications.waset.org/pdf/13244 %V 5 %X This paper presents the enhanced frame-based video coding scheme. The input source video to the enhanced frame-based video encoder consists of a rectangular-size video and shapes of arbitrarily-shaped objects on video frames. The rectangular frame texture is encoded by the conventional frame-based coding technique and the video object-s shape is encoded using the contour-based vertex coding. It is possible to achieve several useful content-based functionalities by utilizing the shape information in the bitstream at the cost of a very small overhead to the bitrate. %P 1443 - 1446