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A Dissertation
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Submitted to the Office of Graduate Studies of
Texas A&M University
in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
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... MODELING
OF SCALABLE VIDEO CODERS
A Dissertation
by
MIN DAI
Submitted to the Office of Graduate Studies of
Texas A&M University
in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
DOCTOR OF ... distortion of a scalable coder. Notice that this result also holds if the encoder
computes the residue in the DCT domain. To better understand this scenario, we
illustrate 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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