Next generation video compression

IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 2013

High definition video is becoming popular day by day due to desire for superior level quality and high resolution video. The upcoming High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard is designed to serve diverse range of applications like HDTV, video conferencing, fast internet streaming and videophone. This paper describes the performance analysis of HEVC with H.264/AVC video coding standard. Various 1920x1080 resolution high definition sequences are used to check the efficiency of HEVC. Simulation results show that HEVC in comparison to H.264 results in 52 % (average) bit rate improvement without significantly affecting the subjective and objective quality of video.

2013

Nowadays, we cannot imagine our life without video content and without devices that enable us to acquire and display such content. According to recent research, in 2012, the video content transfer over the Internet was around 60% of the overall Internet data transfer, and the overall video transfer (including the Internet) could reach 90% during the next four years. The TV sets supporting only full high-definition (HD) resolution (i.e., 1080p) are already considered to be outdated due to a dramatic demand for the ultra-HD resolution that often refers to 3840 × 2160 (4K) or 7680 × 4320 (8K) resolutions. So, what are the key factors for such tremendous progress? If you are reading this special section on video compression technology, we are sure that you know the answer.. . This Optical Engineering special section attempts to provide an overview of the recent achievements in video compression technology, with articles written by professionals and experts in this field. Particularly, this special section consists of eight articles, which can be divided into four groups. The first group of articles consists of three papers and addresses various issues related to the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video coding standard, particularly with regard to the video decoding process. The article "Optimal complexity scalable H.264/AVC video decoding scheme for portable multimedia devices" by H. Lee et al. presents a complexity-scalable H.264/MPEG-4 AVC-based video decoding scheme, thereby enabling control over decoding computational complexity in a scalable manner. Also, the article "Enhanced low bitrate H.264 video coding using decoder-side super-resolution and frame interpolation" by H. F. Ates offers a decoderside super-resolution (SR) and motion-compensated frame interpolation (MCFI) algorithms for improving the H.264/ MPEG-4 AVC coding efficiency. In addition, a fast decoding method is proposed for the context-adaptive variable length coding (CAVLC) by D. W. Ki and J. H. Kim in the article "Fast multiple run_before decoding method for efficient implementation of an H.264/AVC context-adaptive variable length coding decoder." The second group contains an article titled "Spatial and interlayer hybrid intra-prediction for H.264/SVC video" by C.-S. Park, which relates to the scalable extension of the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video coding standard, i.e., to the scalable video coding (SVC) standard. In his work, Park aims to improve the intra-prediction performance by adaptively Ofer Hadar received BSc, MSc (cum laude), and PhD degrees from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, in 1990, 1992, and 1997, respectively, all in electrical and computer engineering. The prestigious Clore Fellowship supported his PhD studies. His PhD dissertation dealt with the effects of vibrations and motion on image quality and target acquisition.

2015

Scalable Video Coding (SVC) is a recent amendment to the ISO/ITU Advanced Video Coding (H.264/AVC) standard, which provides optional but efficient scalability functionalities on top of the high coding efficiency of H.264/AVC. In addition to bringing a cost-efficient solution to the delivery of different formats of the same content to multiple users, it can be used to provide a better viewing experience (enhanced content portability, device power / content-quality adaptation, fast zapping times and fluid forward / rewind functions, efficient error retransmission, etc.). This article describes the potential of SVC, in terms of applications and performance. A brief overview of SVC functionalities, as well as practical use cases, are given in the following sections. Different performance evaluations, based on test results, are also described. 1.

GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communications

Today's popular video coding standards, such as H.264/AVC, are widely used to encode video into bit streams for storage and transmission. With the explosive growth of various video applications, H.264/AVC may not fully satisfy their requirements anymore. There is an increasing demand for high compression efficiency and low complexity video coding standards. In this article, we provide an overview of existing and emerging video coding standards. We review the timeline of the development of the popular H.26X family video coding standards, and introduce several emerging video coding standards such as AV1, VP9 and VVC. As for future video coding, considering the success of machine learning in various fields and hardware acceleration, we conclude this article with a discussion of several future trends in video coding.

Optical Engineering, 2013

Nowadays, we cannot imagine our life without video content and without devices that enable us to acquire and display such content. According to recent research, in 2012, the video content transfer over the Internet was around 60% of the overall Internet data transfer, and the overall video transfer (including the Internet) could reach 90% during the next four years. The TV sets supporting only full high-definition (HD) resolution (i.e., 1080p) are already considered to be outdated due to a dramatic demand for the ultra-HD resolution that often refers to 3840 × 2160 (4K) or 7680 × 4320 (8K) resolutions. So, what are the key factors for such tremendous progress? If you are reading this special section on video compression technology, we are sure that you know the answer.. . This Optical Engineering special section attempts to provide an overview of the recent achievements in video compression technology, with articles written by professionals and experts in this field. Particularly, this special section consists of eight articles, which can be divided into four groups. The first group of articles consists of three papers and addresses various issues related to the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video coding standard, particularly with regard to the video decoding process. The article "Optimal complexity scalable H.264/AVC video decoding scheme for portable multimedia devices" by H. Lee et al. presents a complexity-scalable H.264/MPEG-4 AVC-based video decoding scheme, thereby enabling control over decoding computational complexity in a scalable manner. Also, the article "Enhanced low bitrate H.264 video coding using decoder-side super-resolution and frame interpolation" by H. F. Ates offers a decoderside super-resolution (SR) and motion-compensated frame interpolation (MCFI) algorithms for improving the H.264/ MPEG-4 AVC coding efficiency. In addition, a fast decoding method is proposed for the context-adaptive variable length coding (CAVLC) by D. W. Ki and J. H. Kim in the article "Fast multiple run_before decoding method for efficient implementation of an H.264/AVC context-adaptive variable length coding decoder." The second group contains an article titled "Spatial and interlayer hybrid intra-prediction for H.264/SVC video" by C.-S. Park, which relates to the scalable extension of the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video coding standard, i.e., to the scalable video coding (SVC) standard. In his work, Park aims to improve the intra-prediction performance by adaptively Ofer Hadar received BSc, MSc (cum laude), and PhD degrees from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, in 1990, 1992, and 1997, respectively, all in electrical and computer engineering. The prestigious Clore Fellowship supported his PhD studies. His PhD dissertation dealt with the effects of vibrations and motion on image quality and target acquisition.

— High-Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is currently being prepared as the newest video coding standard of the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) and the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG). The main goal of the HEVC standardization effort is to enable significantly improved compression performance relative to existing standards – in the range of 50% bit rate reduction for equal perceptual video quality. This article provides an overview of the technical features and characteristics of the HEVC standard.

Alessandro Neri, 2013

High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is currently being prepared as the newest video coding standard of the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group and the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group. The main goal of the HEVC standardization effort is to enable significantly improved compression performance relative to existing standards-in the range of 50% bit-rate reduction for equal perceptual video quality. This paper provides an overview of the technical features and characteristics of the HEVC standard.

—High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is currently being prepared as the newest video coding standard of the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group and the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group. The main goal of the HEVC standardization effort is to enable significantly improved compression performance relative to existing standards—in the range of 50% bit-rate reduction for equal perceptual video quality. This paper provides an overview of the technical features and characteristics of the HEVC standard. Index Terms—Advanced video coding (AVC), H.264, High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC), Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG), MPEG-4, standards, Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG), video compression.

2003

Abstract A wide variety of multimedia coding and representation standards have emerged during the past years, in the quest to establish a common denominator for both the research community and the related industry to incorporate results and algorithms in commercial products. MPEG-4 aims to improve where past standards proved ineffective or isolated and integrate different modalities to supply different forms of material, suitable for diverse applications and devices.

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2000