Rate-constrained coder control and comparison of video coding standards

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 688-703

  Wiegand, Thomas ^a   Schwarz, Heiko ^a   Joch, Anthony ^b   Kossentini, Faouzi ^c   Sullivan, Gary J ^d  

^a FRAUNHOFER HEINRICH HERTZ INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b UB Video Inc   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

Coder control; H.263; H.264 AVC; Lagrangian; MPEG 2; MPEG 4; Rate constrained; Standards; Vide o

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COSINE TRANSFORMS; DIGITAL TELEVISION; IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE QUALITY; INTEROPERABILITY; MOTION COMPENSATION; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ADVANCE VIDEO CODEC; CODER CONTROL; LAGRANGIAN CODER CONTROL; MOVING PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP; VIDEO CODING STANDARD;

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 0041629649     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2003.815168     Document Type: Article

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