Efficient motion re-estimation with rate-distortion optimization for MPEG-2 to H.264/AVC transcoding

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 262-274

  Tang, Qiang ^a   Nasiopoulos, Panos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Block size partition; H264 AVC; MPEG 2; Rate distortion optimization; Transcoding

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED VIDEO CODING; BLOCK SIZES; COMPRESSION RATIOS; ESTIMATION PROCESS; FAST MOTION ESTIMATION ALGORITHM; H264/AVC; INTERMEDIATE FORMATS; MACROBLOCK ENCODING; MOTION VECTORS; PICTURE QUALITY; PREDICTION ALGORITHMS; RATE DISTORTION PERFORMANCE; RATE-DISTORTION OPTIMIZATION; SEARCH SCHEME; STANDARD DEFINITIONS; TIME-CONSUMING PROCESS; TRANSCODER; TRANSCODING; VIDEO-TRANSCODING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPRESSION RATIO (MACHINERY); COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC DISTORTION; ESTIMATION; IMAGE CODING; MOTION ESTIMATION; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL DISTORTION; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP STANDARDS;

EID: 76649095709     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2009.2031521     Document Type: Article

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