Improvement on rate-distortion performance of H.264 rate control in low bit rate

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 996-1006

  Zhou, ShuMin ^a   Li, JinTao ^b   Fei, JinHao ^a   Zhang, YongDong ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Bit allocation; Low complexity; Rate control; Video coding

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DATA TRANSFER RATES; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MOTION ESTIMATION; SIGNAL ANALYSIS; SIGNAL DISTORTION;

BIT ALLOCATION; PERPETUAL QUALITY; RATE CONTROL;

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 34548294671     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2007.903123     Document Type: Article

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