Fast mode prediction for the baseline and main profiles in the H.264 video coding standard

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1125-1134

  Grecos, Christos ^a,b   Yang, Mingyuan ^b  

^a IEEE   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Complexity; H.264; Mode prediction; Video coding standards

Indexed keywords

FAST MODE DECISION SCHEMES; MODE PREDICTION; MOTION SEARCH METHODS; VIDEO CODING STANDARDS;

HEURISTIC METHODS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ONLINE SEARCHING; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; STANDARDS;

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 33845615475     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2006.884631     Document Type: Article

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