Quality assessment of motion rendition in video coding

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 766-782

  Van Den Branden Lambrecht, Christian J ^a,b   Costantini, Daniele M ^c   Sicuranza, Giovanni L ^a,c   Kunt, Murat ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; ESTIMATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION COMPENSATION; STANDARDS; VISION;

MOTION ESTIMATION; MOTION PERCEPTION; MOTION RENDITION; MOTION SENSING; MOVING PICTURES EXPERTS GROUP; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; SPATIOTEMPORAL VISION MODEL;

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 0033354853     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/76.780365     Document Type: Article

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