Dynamic Region of Interest Transcoding for Multipoint Video Conferencing

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 982-992

  Lin, Chia Wen ^a   Chen, Yung Chang ^a   Sun, Ming Ting ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bit rate control; Multipoint control unit (MCU); Video coding; Video conference; Video transcoding

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE QUALITY; VIDEO RECORDING;

TRANSCODING;

VIDEO CONFERENCING;

EID: 0141883935     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2003.816505     Document Type: Article

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