Rate control in DCT video coding for low-delay communications

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 172-185

  Ribas Corbera, Jordi ^a,b   Lei, Shawmin ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b SHARP LABORATORIES OF AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bit allocation; H.263; MPEG; Quantization; Rate control; Rate distortion optimization; Video coding

Indexed keywords

BUFFER STORAGE; CONSTRAINT THEORY; COSINE TRANSFORMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; STANDARDS; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORMS (DCT); MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP (MPEG) STANDARDS;

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 0033078178     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/76.744284     Document Type: Article

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