The H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video coding standard and its deployment status

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5960, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 709-719

  Sullivan, Gary J ^a  

^a MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced Video Coding (AVC); H.264; H.26L; JVT; MPEG; MPEG 4; Standards; VCEG; Video coding

Indexed keywords

IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; IMAGE QUALITY; OPTICAL DESIGN; STANDARDS; TELEVISION;

ADVANCED VIDEO CODING (AVC); H.264; H.26L; JVT; MPEG; MPEG-4; VCEG;

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 32544446107     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.631573     Document Type: Conference Paper

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