Robust source decoding of variable-length encoded video data taking into account source constraints

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1077-1084

  Nguyen, Hang ^a   Duhamel, Pierre ^b  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

Image communication; Redundancy; Source coding; Variable length codes (VLCs); Video codecs

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); IMAGE CODING; IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; IMAGE COMPRESSION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; TRELLIS CODES; WHITE NOISE;

ADDITIVE WHITE GAUSSIAN NOISE; SOURCE CODING; SOURCE DECODING; VARIABLE LENGTH CODES (VLCS); VIDEO CODECS;

DECODING;

EID: 23844474032     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2005.851589     Document Type: Article

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