Content-based complexity reduction methods for MPEG-2 to H.264 transcoding

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E90-D, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 90-98

  Li, Shen ^a   Li, Lingfeng ^a   Ikenaga, Takeshi ^a   Ishiwata, Shunichi ^b   Matsui, Masataka ^b   Goto, Satoshi ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Content based; Intra prediction; Mode decision; MPEG 2 H.264 video transcoding

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION THEORY; IMAGE CODING; MOTION ESTIMATION;

COMPLEXITY REDUCTION; INTRA PREDICTION; MACROBLOCK COMPLEXITY; MODE DECISION; VIDEO TRANSCODING;

CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL;

EID: 33846406097     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: 17451361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietisy/e90-1.1.90     Document Type: Article

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