Improving the performance of MPEG compatible encoding at low bit rates using adaptive neural networks

Real-Time Imaging

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 327-345

  Doulamis, Nikolaos ^a   Doulamis, Anastasios ^a   Kollias, Stefanos ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ADAPTIVE NEURAL NETWORKS;

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 0034292736     PISSN: 10072014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/rtim.1999.0185     Document Type: Article

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