Semantic transcoding of videos by using adaptive quantization

Journal of Internet Technology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 341-350

  Cucchiara, Rita ^a   Grana, Costantino ^a   Prati, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adaptive quantization; Motion detection; Performance evaluation; Video adaptation; Video transcoding

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER VISION; DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERNET; PROBLEM SOLVING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; XML;

ADAPTIVE QUANTIZATION; MOTION DETECTION; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; TRANSCODING; VIDEO ADAPTATION;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 9744224270     PISSN: 16079264     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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