Comparing the streaming of FGS encoded video at different aggregation levels: Frame, GoP, and scene

International Journal of Communication Systems

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 449-464

  De Cuetos, Philippe ^a,d   Seeling, Patrick ^b   Reisslein, Martin ^b   Ross, Keith W ^c  

^a EURECOM   (France)

^b Arizona State University   (United States)

^c POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TELECOM PARISTECH   (France)

Author keywords

Fine granularity scalability; Multimedia communications; Performance evaluation; Rate distortion optimized streaming; Scalable video; Video scene; Video streaming

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERNET; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; SERVERS;

FINE GRANULARITY SCALABILITY; MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; RATE DISTORTION OPTIMIZED STREAMING; SCALABLE VIDEO; VIDEO SCENE; VIDEO STREAMING;

VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 21244501267     PISSN: 10745351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dac.711     Document Type: Article

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