Video transcoding architectures and techniques: An overview

IEEE Signal Processing Magazine

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 18-29

  Vetro, Anthony ^a   Christopoulos, Charilaos ^b   Sun, Huifang ^b  

^a MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; CHANNEL CAPACITY; SIGNAL ENCODING; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

VARIABLE BIT-RATE;

VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 84925680300     PISSN: 10535888     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MSP.2003.1184336     Document Type: Review

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