Architectures for fast transcoding of H.264/AVC to quality-scalable SVC streams

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1209-1224

  De Cock, Jan ^a   Notebaert, Stijn ^a   Lambert, Peter ^a   Van De Walle, Rik ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

H.264 AVC; Scalable video coding (SVC); Video transcoding

Indexed keywords

BIT STREAM; BITSTREAMS; H.264/AVC; MULTIPLE QUALITY; POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS; PROPOSED ARCHITECTURES; RATE DISTORTION PERFORMANCE; RATE DISTORTIONS; RATE DISTRIBUTIONS; RE-ENCODING; SCALABLE BIT-STREAMS; SCALABLE VIDEO CODING (SVC); SINGLE LAYER; SNR SCALABILITY; TRANSCODING; VIDEO CONTENTS; VIDEO SEQUENCES; VIDEO TRANSCODING;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; ELECTRIC DISTORTION; IMAGE CODING; MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP STANDARDS; SCALABILITY; SIGNAL DISTORTION; VIDEO RECORDING; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY;

EID: 70350267834     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2009.2030606     Document Type: Article

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