Real-time interactive mpeg-4 system encoder using a cluster of workstations

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 217-233

  He, Yong ^a,b   Ahmad, Ishfaq ^a,b   Liou, Ming L ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Hong Kong)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

MPEG 4; Parallel processing; Petri nets; Scheduling algorithm; Video compression

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003280079     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/6046.766741     Document Type: Article

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