Adaptive coding of moving objects for very low bit rates

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 56-70

  Han, Soo Chul ^a   Woods, J W ^b  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Image coding; Image motion analysis; Video signal processing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

MARKOV RANDOM FIELD MODEL; MOTION ANALYSIS; MOTION ESTIMATION;

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 0031646278     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/49.650920     Document Type: Article

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