Rate-Distortion Analysis for H.264/AVC Video Coding and its Application to Rate Control

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1533-1543

  Ma, Siwei ^a,b   Gao, Wen ^{a,b,d,e,f,g,h}   Lu, Yan ^c  

^a IEEE   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^e Institute of Computing Technology   (China)

^f HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^g CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^h Chinese National Delegation   (China)

Author keywords

H.264 AVC; Hypothetical reference decoder (HRD); Rate control; Rate distortion optimization (RDO); Video coding

Indexed keywords

HYPOTHETICAL REFERENCE DECODER (HRD); RATE CONTROL; RATE-DISTORTION OPTIMIZATION (RDO);

ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION;

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 29144492876     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2005.857300     Document Type: Article

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