Low-complexity tracking-aware H.264 video compression for transportation surveillance

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1378-1389

  Soyak, Eren ^a   Tsaftaris, Sotirios A ^b   Katsaggelos, Aggelos K ^c  

^a AIRTIES WIRELESS NETWORKS   (Turkey)

^b IMT SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED STUDIES LUCCA   (Italy)

^c Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Quantization; urban transportation video; video compression; video object tracking; video processing

Indexed keywords

BIT RATES; BIT-RATE SAVINGS; COMPRESSION ALGORITHMS; FREQUENCY COEFFICIENT; H.264 VIDEO COMPRESSION; H.264/AVC VIDEO CODING; LOW-COMPLEXITY; MEAN SQUARED ERROR; MEMORY REQUIREMENTS; OBJECT TRACKING ALGORITHM; PROCESSING POWER; QUANTIZATION; REMOTE NODE; SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS; TRACKING ACCURACY; URBAN TRANSPORTATION; VIDEO OBJECT TRACKING; VIDEO PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE COMPRESSION; MOTION ESTIMATION; MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP STANDARDS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

SECURITY SYSTEMS;

EID: 80053539033     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2011.2163448     Document Type: Article

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