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... MODELING OF SCALABLE VIDEO CODERSA DissertationbyMIN DAISubmitted to the Office of Graduate Studies of Texas A&M Universityin partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF ... distortion of a scalable coder. Notice that this result also holds if the encodercomputes the residue in the DCT domain. To better understand this scenario, weillustrate the coding process of FGS coders ... characteristics of existing video traffic. Rate-distortion(R-D) based schemes are often applied to improve and stabilize video quality; how-ever, the lack of R-D modeling of scalable coders limits...
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