MPEG-4 multimedia coding standard: algorithms, architectures and applications

Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems for Signal, Image, and Video Technology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 7-26

  Bauer, Sven ^a,d   Kneip, Johannes ^a   Mlasko, Torsten ^a   Schmale, Bernd ^a   Vollmer, Jens ^a   Hutter, Andreas ^b   Berekovic, Mladen ^c  

^a ROBERT BOSCH GMBH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^d FRAUNHOFER HEINRICH HERTZ INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUDIO SYSTEMS; IMAGE COMPRESSION; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; STANDARDS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

AUDIO VISUAL OBJECTS; MOVING PICTURES EXPERT GROUP; OBJECT BASED CODING;

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 0033207762     PISSN: 09225773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008136602091     Document Type: Article

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