Efficient reference frame selector for H.264

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 400-405

  Kuo, Tien Ying ^a,b   Lu, Hsin Ju ^b,c  

^a IEEE

^b NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c Advanced Digital Broadcast Inc   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Frame selection; H264; Motion estimation; Multiple reference frames; Variable block size

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BLOCK CODES; MOTION ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; TABU SEARCH;

FRAME SELECTION; MULTIPLE REFERENCE FRAMES; VARIABLE BLOCK SIZE;

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 41649083614     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2008.918111     Document Type: Article

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