Low-complexity and high-quality frame-skipping transcoder for continuous presence multipoint video conferencing

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 31-46

  Fung, Kai Tat ^a   Chan, Yui Lam ^a   Siu, Wan Chi ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Compressed domain processing; Frame skipping; Video compression; Video conferencing; Video transcoding

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COSINE TRANSFORMS; DECODING; IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE QUALITY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

CONTINUOUS PRESENCE MULTIPOINT VIDEO CONFERENCING; DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORM; HIGH-QUALITY FRAME-SKIPPING TRANSCODER; VIDEO TRANSCODING;

VIDEO CONFERENCING;

EID: 0742321326     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2003.819761     Document Type: Article

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