The new MPEG-4 standard, scheduled to become an International Standard in February 1999, will include support not only for natural video and audio, but also for synthetic graphics...
Marc Escher, Igor S. Pandzic, Nadia Magnenat-Thalm...
After the emergence of numerous Internet streaming applications, rate-distortion (R-D) modeling of scalable video encoders has become an important issue. In this paper, we examine...
We examine the bit rate variability-distortion (VD) curve of I, P, and B frames of MPEG-4 VBR encoded video sequences. We show that the concave VD curve shape at high compression ...
Geert Van Der Auwera, Martin Reisslein, Lina J. Ka...
This paper presents efficient all-to-all broadcast algorithms for arbitrary irregular networks with switch-based wormhole interconnection and unicast message passing. First, all-t...
Matthew G. Jacunski, P. Sadayappan, Dhabaleswar K....
Using off-the-shelf commodity workstations to build a cluster for parallel computing has become a common practice. In studying or designing a cluster of workstations one should ha...