An introduction to the MPEG-4 animation framework extension

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 928-936

  Bourges Sévenier, Mikaël ^a   Jang, Euee S ^b  

^a Mindego Inc   (United States)

^b Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Animation framework; Augmented reality; MPEG 4; Synthetic natural hybrid coding; Virtual reality modeling language (VRML)

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; IMAGE CODING; STANDARDS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ANIMATION FRAMEWORK; AUGUMENTED REALITY; MPEG-4; SYNTHETIC NATURAL HYBRID CODING; VIRTUAL REALITY MODELING LANGUAGE (VRML);

IMAGE COMPRESSION;

EID: 3142762993     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2004.830662     Document Type: Review

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