An improved early detection algorithm for all-zero blocks in H.264 video encoding

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1053-1057

  Moon, Yong Ho ^a   Kim, Gyu Yeong ^b   Kim, Jae Ho ^b  

^a Pusan University of Foreign Studies   (South Korea)

^b Pusan National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Discrete cosine transform (DCT); Early detection; Fast video encoding; H.264 AVC; Sum of absolute difference (SAD)

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COSINE TRANSFORMS; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE QUALITY; MOTION ESTIMATION;

DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORM (DCT); EARLY DETECTION; FAST VIDEO ENCODING; H.264/AVC; SUM OF ABSOLUTE DIFFERENCE (SAD);

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 25144485907     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2005.852411     Document Type: Article

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