An overview of scalable video streaming

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 159-172

  Sun, Huifang ^a   Vetro, Anthony ^a   Xin, Jun ^a  

^a MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Bitstream switching; Region of interest video streaming; Scalable video coding; Scalable video streaming; Video transcoding

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; ERROR DETECTION; IMAGE CODING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

BITSTREAM SWITCHING; REGION OF INTEREST VIDEO STREAMING; SCALABLE VIDEO CODING; SCALABLE VIDEO STREAMING; VIDEO TRANSCODING;

VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 33847264489     PISSN: 15308669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wcm.471     Document Type: Review

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