VIDEO ENCODING AND DECODING USING AN EPITOME

摘要

A method for encoding a sequence of images by an encoding device. The method includes, for at least one current image of the sequence: building an epitome representative of the current image from the sequence, the current image and the images of the sequence belonging to a same shot; generating a signal including the built epitome; and generating information associated with the built epitome, the information being added to the generated signal or to another signal.