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To provide users with more realistic visual experiences, videos are developing in the trends of Ultra High Definition (UHD), High Frame Rate (HFR), High Dynamic Range (HDR), Wide Color Gammut (WCG) and high clarity. However, the data amount…
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3D video coding is one of the most popular research area in multimedia. This paper reviews the recent progress of the coding technologies for multiview video (MVV) and free view-point video (FVV) which is represented by MVV and depth maps.…
We consider the problem of energy-efficient on-line scheduling for slice-parallel video decoders on multicore systems. We assume that each of the processors are Dynamic Voltage Frequency Scaling (DVFS) enabled such that they can…
Recently, HTTP-Based Adaptive Streaming has become the de facto standard for video streaming over the Internet. It allows the client to adapt media characteristics to varying network conditions in order to maximize Quality of Experience…