The H.264/MPEG4 advanced video coding standard and its applications

IEEE Communications Magazine

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 134-142

  Marpe, Detlev ^a   Wiegand, Thomas ^a   Sullivan, Gary J ^b  

^a FRAUNHOFER HEINRICH HERTZ INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIDELITY RANGE EXTENSIONS (FREXT); MOVING PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP (MPEG); VIDEO CODING EXPERTS GROUP (VCEG);

DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; IMAGE COMPRESSION; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; VIDEO CONFERENCING;

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 33947118115     PISSN: 01636804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2006.1678121     Document Type: Article

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