An intelligent rate control algorithm to improve the video quality at scene transitions for off-line MPEG-1/2 encoders

IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 210-219

  Arachchi, H Kodikara ^a   Fernando, W A C ^a  

^a ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COSINE TRANSFORMS; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MOTION COMPENSATION; MOTION ESTIMATION;

ITERATIVE ALGORITHMS; MOVING PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP; RATE CONTROL ALGORITHM; VIDEO ENCODING; VIDEO QUALITY;

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0037678006     PISSN: 00983063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCE.2003.1205479     Document Type: Article

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