Low bit-rate video coding with trellis source codes

Proceedings DCC '98 Data Compression Conference (Cat. No.98TB100225) Pub Date : 1998-03-30 DOI:10.1109/DCC.1998.672304

Magatho A. Mello, T. Fischer

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Summary form only given. A novel trellis coded quantisation (TCQ) encoding method is introduced that uses a hard thresholding operation to partition the zig-zag scanned coefficients into two classes: significant, |x|/spl ges/T, and insignificant, |x|

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只提供摘要形式。提出了一种新的栅格编码量化(TCQ)编码方法，该方法使用硬阈值操作将锯齿形扫描系数划分为两类:显著(|x|/spl ges/T)和不显著(|x|

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