Frame bit allocation for the H.264/AVC video coder via cauchy-density-based rate and distortion models

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 994-1006

  Kamaci, Nejat ^a   Altunbasak, Yucel ^a   Mersereau, Russell M ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced video coding; Bit allocation; H.264; Rate and distortion modeling; Rate control

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED VIDEO CODING; BIT ALLOCATION; H.264; RATE AND DISTORTION MODELING; RATE CONTROL;

ALGORITHMS; COSINE TRANSFORMS; ENTROPY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 25144472566     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2005.852400     Document Type: Article

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