Abstract: In this paper, a novel rate control scheme with optimized bits allocation for the 3-D video coding is proposed. First, we investigate the R-D characteristics of the texture and depth map of ...

The obesity crisis is recent, and so is the introduction of certain foods into our diet. (Source: Getty/ABS) We are what we eat. The ABS has long known that. Every year they release data on what ...

Hundreds of thousands of pounds has been handed out over the past week in the People's Postcode Lottery draws. Amongst the winners this week is a dad-of-two who secured a whopping £52k. Scotland fan ...

Ministers have confirmed the locations for seven new towns to kickstart a ‘historic’ housebuilding push across the UK —including a historic village and under-developed inner-city land. Each would aim ...

An 18th Century official map of London is to be republished 280 years after its first printing. John Rocque's An Exact Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, and the Borough of Southwark ...

Abstract: Among the new techniques of Versatile Video Coding (VVC), the quadtree with nested multi-type tree (MTT) block structure yields significant coding gains by providing more flexible block ...

But for Northern Ireland and the upper reaches of north west Scotland, most of the UK is covered by a near 2,500-mile theoretical red zone. The concerns come after Tehran fired two intermediate-range ...

Module information documents generated from the recently published 2026/27 Module Catalogue are now available as downloadable PDFs. Module information documents from previous years are also available ...

Sponsor Citi priced its £200.8m unsecured consumer ABS debut on Tuesday. The deal is backed by loans which Citi acquired from UK unsecured lender Abound through a forward flow agreement. “The UK ...