BFlavor: A harmonized approach to media resource adaptation, inspired by MPEG-21 BSDL and XFlavor

Signal Processing: Image Communication

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 862-889

  Neve, Wesley De ^a   Van Deursen, Davy ^a   De Schrijver, Davy ^a   Lerouge, Sam ^a   De Wolf, Koen ^a   Van de Walle, Rik ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

BFlavor; Content adaptation; H.264 AVC; MPEG 21 BSDL; Multimedia; SEI messages; Sub sequences; Temporal scalability; XFlavor

Indexed keywords

BINARY CODES; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; ELECTRONIC MAIL; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

BITSTREAM SYNTAX DESCRIPTION (BSD); CONTENT ADAPTATION; SEI MESSAGES; TEMPORAL SCALABILITIES; XFLAVORS;

XML;

EID: 33751032579     PISSN: 09235965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.image.2006.08.005     Document Type: Article

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