Comparative rate-distortion-complexity analysis of HEVC and AVC video codecs

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1885-1898

  Vanne, Jarno ^a   Viitanen, Marko ^a   Hamalainen, Timo D ^a   Hallapuro, Antti ^b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Decoder; encoder; HEVC test model (HM); high efficiency video coding (HEVC); rate distortion complexity

Indexed keywords

DECODER; ENCODER; HIGH EFFICIENCY VIDEO CODING (HEVC); RATE-DISTORTION-COMPLEXITY; TEST MODELS;

ELECTRIC DISTORTION; VIDEO CONFERENCING; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

SIGNAL DISTORTION;

EID: 84872259709     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2012.2223013     Document Type: Article

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