Visual sensitivity guided bit allocation for video coding

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 11-18

  Tang, Chih Wei ^a   Chen, Ching Ho ^b,c   Yu, Ya Hui ^b   Tsai, Chun Jen ^b,d  

^a INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c Novatek Microelectronics Corporation Taiwan   (Taiwan)

^d ISO/IEC MPEG Organization   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bit allocation; H.264; Psychovisual model; Rate visual distortion analysis; Visual attention; Visual masking

Indexed keywords

BIT ALLOCATION; H.264; PSYCHOVISUAL MODEL; RATE-VISUAL DISTORTION ANALYSIS; VISUAL ATTENTION; VISUAL MASKING;

ALGORITHMS; DEGRADATION; IMAGE QUALITY; MASKS; PROCESS CONTROL; VIDEO CAMERAS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 31344449873     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2005.861295     Document Type: Article

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