Joint Optimal Object Shape Estimation and Encoding

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 528-533

  Kondi, Lisimachos P ^a   Melnikov, Gerry ^b   Katsaggelos, Aggelos K ^c  

^a State University of New York   (United States)

^b Ingenient Technologies   (United States)

^c Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary coding; MPEG 4; Operational rate distortion (ORD) theory; Shape coding; Shape adaptive DCT

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BITS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; ERROR COMPENSATION; GRADIENT INDEX OPTICS; MOTION ESTIMATION; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BOUNDARY CODING; MPEG-4; OPERATIONAL RATE-DISTORTION (ORD) THEORY; SHAPE CODING; SHAPE-ADAPTIVE DCT;

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 2042469464     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2004.825569     Document Type: Article

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