On the methods and performances of rational downsizing video transcoding

Signal Processing: Image Communication

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 47-65

  Tan, Yap Peng ^a   Liang, Yongqing ^a   Sun, Haiwei ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Bit rate reduction; Frame size reduction; Integral downsizing; Rational downsizing; Video transcoding

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE QUALITY; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

BIT-RATE REDUCTION; FRAME-SIZE REDUCTION; INTEGRAL DOWNSIZING; RATIONAL DOWNSIZING;

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 0345305863     PISSN: 09235965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.image.2003.08.017     Document Type: Article

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