A novel rate control scheme for low delay video communication of H.264/AVC standard

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 68-78

  Liu, Yang ^b   Li, Zhengguo G ^a,c   Soh, Yeng Chai ^b  

^a IEEE

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Bit allocation; Buffer regulation; H.264 AVC; Linear R Q model; Rate control; Switched MAD prediction model

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SWITCHING; VIDEO ON DEMAND;

BIT ALLOCATION; BUFFER REGULATION; LINEAR R-Q MODEL; RATE CONTROL; SWITCHED MAD PREDICTION MODEL; VIDEO COMMUNICATION;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33846320028     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2006.887081     Document Type: Article

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