摘要 |
A system is provided that is usable in a processing system for decoding a sequence including a plurality of pictures, wherein the group of pictures includes an anchor picture serving as a reference for coding all of the plurality of pictures and at least one reference picture serving as a reference for coding at least some of the other of the group of pictures, the plurality of pictures defined in a plurality of hierarchical layers according to coding order. The coding includes coding an t h subset of the plurality of pictures of the first hierarchical layer according to ant h hierarchical layer picture complexity, and after coding the t h set of the plurality of pictures of the t h hierarchical layer, coding a [mutually exclusive] t h + 1 subset of the plurality of pictures of a t h + 1 hierarchical layer according to a second hierarchical layer picture complexity measure. |