H.264 coarse grain scalable (CGS) and medium grain scalable (MGS) encoded video: A trace based traffic and quality evaluation

IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 428-439

  Gupta, Rohan ^a   Pulipaka, Akshay ^b   Seeling, Patrick ^c   Karam, Lina J ^b   Reisslein, Martin ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Arizona State University   (United States)

^c CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coarse grain scalability; H.264 SVC; medium grain scalability; rate variability distortion; rate distortion; traffic variability

Indexed keywords

COARSE GRAINS; H.264 SVC; MEDIUM GRAINS; RATE DISTORTIONS; RATE VARIABILITY-DISTORTION;

EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC DISTORTION; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP STANDARDS; SIGNAL DISTORTION; VIDEO STREAMING;

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 84865338036     PISSN: 00189316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBC.2012.2191702     Document Type: Article

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