Efficient background video coding with static sprite generation and arbitrary-shape spatial prediction techniques

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 394-405

  Lu, Yan ^a   Gao, Wen ^b   Wu, Feng ^c  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

Author keywords

MPEG 4; Object based video coding; Spatial prediction; Sprite generation; Static sprite coding

Indexed keywords

IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MOTION ESTIMATION; VIDEO CONFERENCING;

GLOBAL MOTION ESTIMATION; STATIC SPRITE GENERATION;

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 0038275775     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2003.811607     Document Type: Article

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