A novel H.264 rate control algorithm with consideration of visual attention

Multimedia Tools and Applications

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 709-727

  Shen, Liquan ^a   Liu, Zhi ^a   Zhang, Zhaoyang ^a  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Frame level bit allocation; MB level bit allocation; Rate control; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; IMAGE CODING; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BIT ALLOCATION; COMPUTATION COMPLEXITY; HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEM; OBJECTIVE QUALITIES; RATE CONTROL ALGORITHMS; RATE CONTROL SCHEME; RATE CONTROLS; VISUAL ATTENTION;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84898896208     PISSN: 13807501     EISSN: 15737721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11042-011-0893-z     Document Type: Article

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