Performance analysis of the scalable video coding standard

The emerging Scalable Video Coding extends the H.264/AVC video coding standard with new tools designed to efficiently support temporal, spatial and SNR scalability. This paper gives a comprehensive overview of the new features of the SVC standard, providing at the same time an evaluation of their Rate-Distortion performance as well as of the computational complexity.

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