Video encoding for multimedia services over communication networks has significantly advanced in recent years with the development of the highly efficient and flexible H.264/AVC video coding standard and its SVC extension. The emerging H.265/HEVC video coding standard as well as 3D video coding further advance video coding for multimedia communications. This paper first gives an overview of the...

Different visual perception characteristic saliencies are the key to constitute the low-complexity video coding framework. A hierarchical video coding scheme based on human visual systems (HVS) is proposed in this paper. The proposed scheme uses a joint video coding framework consisting of visual perception analysis layer (VPAL) and video coding layer (VCL). In VPAL, effective visual perception...

Significant progress has been made recently towards the next generation video coding standard by the Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC) of ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) and ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG). The test model, known as High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), aims to achieve 50% coding gain over the current MPEG4/H.264 AVC standard. Recently reported...

Video coding systems may greatly differ from each other, as they consist of complicated functional modules and each module can be realized by using different techniques. For the interoperability in communication, video coding standards are developed to restrict various video coding systems, such that manufacturers can successfully interwork with each other by producing compliant encoders and de...

This chapter describes and explains common as well as less common distortions in modern video coding, ranging from artifacts appearing in MPEG-2 Video, MPEG-4 Part 2, H.264 and VC-1 to scalable and multi-view video coding based distortions, including the proposals for next generation video coding (NVC). In addition to a discussion about avoiding these artifacts through encoder-side measures, a ...

H.264/AVC is the latest international video coding standard. It is currently the most powerful and state-of-the-art standard; thus, it can provide enhanced coding efficiency for a wide range of video applications, including video telephony, video conferencing, TV, storage, streaming video, digital cinema, and many others (Luthra et al., 2003; Sullivan & Wiegand, 2005; Wiegand et al., 2003). To ...

ABSTRACT 2D DWT can be extended to 3D an thus applied to video coding [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. Such video codecs take advantage of both coding efficiency and scalability of the wavelet transform. Some promising new video coding methods are based on 3D subband coding with motion compensation [6, 7, 8, 9, 10]. These methods provide encouraging results comparatively to MPEG. However 3D subband coding of v...

The coding method in MPEG-4 for interlaced-video is introduced in this paper. Such a method is an extension of MPEG-2 interlaced coding tools to allow compression of arbitrarily-shaped interlaced-video. The new textureand-shape coding tools discussed here for arbitrarily-shaped interlaced-video provide good compression performance. It is demonstrated here that these interlaced tools improve the...

An integrated framework of optimal rate allocation for video coding is presented in the case of transmission over wireless channels without feedback channels. For a fixed channel bit rate and finite number of channel coding rate, the proposed scheme can find the optimal source and channel coding pair and corresponding robust video coding scheme such that the expected end-to-end distortion of vi...

This paper surveys recent trends and perspectives in distributed video coding. More specifically, the status and potential benefits of distributed video coding in terms of coding efficiency, complexity, error resilience, and scalability are reviewed. Multiview video and applications beyond coding are also considered. In addition, recent contributions in these areas, more thoroughly explored in ...