Macroblock-based frequency selective weighting for visual scalable video coding of H.264/AVC

IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 559-568

  Ha, Hojin ^a,b   Oh, Taegeun ^b   Lee, Sanghoon ^b  

^a SAMSUNG Electronics   (South Korea)

^b Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Frequency weighting; HVS; Region of interests; Scalable video coding; SVC H.264 AVC; Visual coding

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY WEIGHTING; HVS; REGION OF INTERESTS; SCALABLE VIDEO CODING; SVC H.264/AVC; VISUAL CODING;

ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); IMAGE QUALITY; MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP STANDARDS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION; WEIGHING;

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 70349325508     PISSN: 00189316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBC.2009.2027624     Document Type: Article

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