Optimal frame memory and data transfer scheme for MPEG-4 shape coding

IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 342-348

  Lee, Kun Bin ^a   Chin, Hao Yun ^a   Chang, Nelson Yen Chung ^a   Hsu, Hui Cheng ^a   Jen, Chein Wei ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Data transfer; Frame memory; MPEG 4; Shape coding

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS;

MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP; OPTIMAL FRAME MEMORY; SHAPE CODING;

DATA TRANSFER;

EID: 1942487733     PISSN: 00983063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCE.2004.1277883     Document Type: Article

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