VAPOR: Variance-aware per-pixel optimal resource allocation

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 289-299

  Eisenberg, Yiftach ^a   Zhai, Fan ^b   Pappas, Thrasyvoulos ^c   Berry, Randall ^c   Katsaggelos, Aggelos K ^c  

^a BAE SYSTEMS   (United States)

^b TEXAS INSTRUMENTS   (United States)

^c Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Error analysis; Multimedia communication; Teleconferencing; Video coding; Videophone systems

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INTERNET; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; PACKET NETWORKS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SIGNAL DISTORTION; TELECONFERENCING; VIDEO TELEPHONE EQUIPMENT;

MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATION; VIDEO TRANSMISSION SYSTEM; VIDEOPHONE SYSTEMS; WIRELESS CHANNELS;

IMAGE CODING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY; MULTIMEDIA; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TELECOMMUNICATION; VIDEORECORDING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA COMPRESSION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERNET; MULTIMEDIA; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 31144447892     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2005.860600     Document Type: Article

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