Performance and Complexity Co-evaluation of the Advanced Video Coding Standard for Cost-Effective Multimedia Communications

Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing

Volumn 2004, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 220-235

  Saponara, Sergio ^a   Denolf, Kristof ^a   Lafruit, Gauthier ^a   Blanch, Carolina ^a   Bormans, Jan ^a  

^a IMEC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Complexity analysis; Cost effective design of multimedia systems; Power optimized multimedia coding; Video compression standards (MPEG AVC, H.26l, H.264)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DATA TRANSFER; DECODING; IMAGE COMPRESSION; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PARETO PRINCIPLE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STANDARDS; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

COMPLEXITY ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVE DESIGN OF MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; POWER-OPTIMIZED MULTIMEDIA CODING; VIDEO COMPRESSION STANDARDS (MPEG AVC, H.26L, H.264);

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 1842629684     PISSN: 11108657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/S111086570431019X     Document Type: Article

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