Rate control for H.264 video with enhanced rate and distortion models

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 517-528

  Kwon, Do Kyoung ^a,b   Shen, Mei Yin ^a,b   Jay Kuo, C C ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

H.264; Optimal bit allocation; Rate control; Ratedistortion (R D) optimization

Indexed keywords

OPTIMAL BIT ALLOCATION; RATE CONTROL; RATE DISTORTION (RD) OPTIMIZATION;

ALGORITHMS; BIT ERROR RATE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIGNAL DISTORTION;

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 34247611060     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2007.894053     Document Type: Article

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