An optimized MPEG-21 BSDL framework for the adaptation of scalable bitstreams

Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 217-239

  De Schrijver, Davy ^a   De Neve, Wesley ^a   De Wolf, Koen ^a   De Sutter, Robbie ^a   Van de Walle, Rik ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bitstream syntax descriptions; Content adaptation; Context related attributes; H.264 MPEG 4 AVC; MPEG 21 BSDL; Scalable video coding

Indexed keywords

BINARY CODES; IMAGE CODING; MULTIMEDIA SERVICES; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; VIDEO STREAMING; XML;

BITSTREAM SYNTAX DESCRIPTION LANGUAGE (BSDL); BITSTREAMS; HETEROGENEOUS MULTIMEDIA; MEMORY CONSUMPTION;

IMAGE COMPRESSION;

EID: 34247596002     PISSN: 10473203     EISSN: 10959076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvcir.2007.02.003     Document Type: Article

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