Performance of software-based MPEG-2 video encoder on parallel and distributed systems

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 687-695

  Akramullah, Shahriar M ^a   Ahmad, Ishfaq ^a   Liou, Ming L ^a  

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

Author keywords

Motion estimation; MPEG 2; Network of workstations; Parallel and distributed systems; Software; Video coding

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; IMAGE QUALITY; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP (MPEG);

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 0031209454     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/76.611179     Document Type: Article

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