Spatial scalability within the H.264/AVC scalable video coding extension

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1121-1135

  Segall, C Andrew ^a,b   Sullivan, Gary J ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b SHARP LABORATORIES OF AMERICA   (United States)

^c MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

H.264 AVC; Scalable Video Coding (SVC); Spatial scalability

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SEQUENCES; JOINT VIDEO TEAM (JVT); SCALABLE VIDEO CODING STANDARDS; SINGLE BIT STREAMS; SPATIAL SCALABILITY;

BIT ERROR RATE; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP STANDARDS; SCALABILITY;

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 34748813650     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2007.906824     Document Type: Article

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