A region-based H.263+ codec and its rate control for low VBR video

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 489-500

  Song, Hwangjun ^a   Kuo, C C Jay ^b  

^a Hong Ik University   (South Korea)

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE CODING; INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

CONTROL UNIT; OVER PROVED BLOCK MOTION COMPENSATION (OBMC); RATE CONTROL ALGORITHMS; VARIABLE-BIT-RATE (VBR) VIDEO;

MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

EID: 2642513913     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2004.827488     Document Type: Article

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