New method for reducing GOP-boundary artifacts in wavelet-based video coding

IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 350-355

  Wang, Demin ^a   Zhang, Liang ^a   Vincent, André ^a  

^a Department of Optoelectronic Technologies   (Canada)

Author keywords

Image coding; Video coding; Wavelet filter; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; IMAGE QUALITY; MOTION COMPENSATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

CODING GAIN; GROUPS OF PICTURES (GOP); WAVELET FILTERS;

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 33748321008     PISSN: 00189316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2006.879850     Document Type: Article

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