Efficient rate-distortion estimation for H.264/AVC coders

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 600-611

  Tu, Yu Kuang ^a,b   Yang, Jar Ferr ^a,b,d,e,f   Sun, Ming Ting ^a,c,g  

^a IEEE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c University of Washington   (United States)

^d Graduate Institute of Computer and Communication Engineering   (Taiwan)

^e Electrical and Information Technology Center   (Taiwan)

^f Taiwanese Video and Audio Compression Consortium ^*  (Taiwan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bit rate estimation; Distortion measure; H.264 AVC; Mode decision; Rate distortion optimization

Indexed keywords

BIT-RATE ESTIMATION; H.264/AVC; RATE-DISTORTION OPTIMIZATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DECISION THEORY; ENTROPY; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 33646430569     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2006.873160     Document Type: Article

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