Rate control for videophone using local perceptual cues

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 496-506

  Yang, Xiaokang ^a,b   Lin, Weisi ^a   Lu, Zhongkang ^a   Lin, Xiao ^a   Rahardja, Susanto ^a   Ong, Eeping ^a   Yao, Susu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Human visual system (HVS); Perception; Rate control; Video coding; Videophone

Indexed keywords

HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEM (HVS); NONGRID OBJECTS; RATE CONTROL; VIDEOPHONES;

BANDWIDTH; COLOR; IMAGE CODING; OBJECT RECOGNITION; SIGNAL DISTORTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VECTOR QUANTIZATION; VISION;

VIDEO TELEPHONE EQUIPMENT;

EID: 17144369852     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2005.844458     Document Type: Article

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