Rate-distortion analysis and quality control in scalable Internet streaming

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1135-1146

  Dai, Min ^a,b   Loguinov, Dmitri ^a,c   Radha, Hayder M ^a,d  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b QUALCOMM INC   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

MPEG 4 FGS; Quality control; Rate distortion; Scalable streaming

Indexed keywords

CONSTANT BITRATE (CBR) CHANNELS; RATE DISTORTION; SCALABLE STREAMING; VARIABLE BITRATE (VBR) CHANNELS;

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); IMAGE QUALITY; INTERNET; SIGNAL DISTORTION;

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 33845668395     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2006.884626     Document Type: Article

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