Sprite generation and coding in multiview image sequences

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 302-311

  Grammalidis, Nikos ^a,b   Beletsiotis, Dimitris ^a   Strintzis, Michael G ^a,b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b IEEE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOTION PICTURES EXPERTS GROUP (MPEG) STANDARDS; MULTIVIEW IMAGE SEQUENCES; SPRITES;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; STANDARDS;

VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 0033878086     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/76.825729     Document Type: Article

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