Adapting multimedia internet content for universal access

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 104-114

  Mohan, Rakesh ^a,b   Smith, John R ^a,b   Li, Chung Sheng ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Compression; Content adaptation; Information appliances; Internet; Multimedia; Rate distortion; Transcoding; Universal access

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000880275     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/6046.748175     Document Type: Article

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