Data compression and transmission aspects of panoramic videos

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 82-95

  Ng, King To ^a   Chan, Shing Chow ^a   Shum, Heung Yeung ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

Author keywords

Image based rendering; Panoramic video; Video coding and transmission; Video on demand (VOD); Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; SERVERS; VECTOR QUANTIZATION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ADVANCED DELIVERY SHARING SCHEME (ADSS); IMAGE-BASED RENDERING; PANORAMIC VIDEO; VIDEO CODING AND TRANSMISSION;

IMAGE COMPRESSION;

EID: 12344314044     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2004.839989     Document Type: Article

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