A software-based MPEG-4 video encoder using parallel processing

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 909-920

  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

Data partitioning; Dynamic scheduling; Load balancing; MPEG 4; Parallel and distributed processing; Petri nets; Video encoder

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PETRI NETS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

MOTION PICTURE EXPERT GROUP; VIDEO ENCODER; VIRTUAL MACHINE;

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 0032203279     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/76.735385     Document Type: Article

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