Minimum variance optimal rate allocation for multiplexed H.264/AVC bitstreams

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1129-1143

  Tagliasacchi, Marco ^a   Valenzise, Giuseppe ^a   Tubaro, Stefano ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Rate control; Statistical multiplexing; Video coding

Indexed keywords

MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP STANDARDS; MULTIPLEXING; STANDARDS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

BITSTREAMS; CLOSED-FORM SOLUTIONS; CODING EFFICIENCY; CONSTANT BANDWIDTH; CONSTANT QUALITY; ENCODED SEQUENCES; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; H.264/AVC; IMAGE-CODING STANDARD; MINIMUM VARIANCE; MODEL PARAMETERS; MULTIPLE VIDEO STREAMS; OPTIMAL RATE ALLOCATION; OPTIMALITY CRITERIA; RATE ALLOCATION; RATE CONTROL; RATE FLUCTUATIONS; STATISTICAL MULTIPLEXING; TRANSCODING; VIDEO CODING;

IMAGE CODING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VIDEORECORDING;

ALGORITHMS; DATA COMPRESSION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 45949111321     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2008.924278     Document Type: Article

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