A frequency-domain video transcoder for dynamic bit-rate reduction of MPEG-2 bit streams

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 953-967

  Assunção, Pedro A A ^b   Ghanbari, Mohammed ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data compression; Digital TV; Frequency domain analysis; Image converters; Motion compensation; Video signal processing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COSINE TRANSFORMS; DIGITAL TELEVISION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE CONVERTERS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MOTION COMPENSATION; OPTIMIZATION; TELEVISION PICTURE QUALITY; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BIT RATE; LAGRANGIAN RATE DISTORTION OPTIMIZATION; MPEG 2; VIDEO TRANSCODER;

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 0032280029     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/76.736724     Document Type: Article

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