G. Candotti et al., PYRAMIDAL MULTIRESOLUTION SOURCE-CODING FOR PROGRESSIVE SEQUENCES, IEEE transactions on consumer electronics, 40(4), 1994, pp. 789-795
A hierarchical video source coding algorithm based on MPEG-2 is presen
ted. The proposed coding scheme is characterized by (i) non-interlaced
pictures for each layer; (2) hierarchical motion estimation able to p
rovide physical motion vectors for both ''B'' and ''P'' pictures; (iii
) hierarchical spatial scalability-which is the main feature of a syst
em for a multiresolution MPEG-2-like coding architecture-without any i
ncrease in the total bit rate. Several alternative solutions are propo
sed and evaluated.