This paper investigates the effects of many parameters, which are crucial for performance of H.264 video coder .H.264 is the latest international video coding standard. It was jointly developed by the video coding expert group (VCEG) of the ITU-T and moving picture expert group (MPEG) of ISO/IEC. The main goals of the H.264 standardization effort have been enhanced compression performance. H.26...

Streaming Video Profile is the subject of an Amendment of MPEG-4, and is developed in response to the growing need on a video-coding standard for streaming video over the Internet. It provides the capability to distribute single-layered frame-based video over a wide range of bit rates with high coding efficiency. It also provides fine granularity scalability (FGS), and its combination with temp...

The extension of H.264/AVC hybrid video coding towards scalable video coding (SVC) using motion-compensated temporal filtering (MCTF) is presented. Utilizing the lifting approach to implement MCTF, the motion compensation features of H.264/AVC can be re-used for the MCTF prediction step and extended in a straightforward way for the MCTF update step. The MCTF extension of H.264/AVC is also incor...

Image-space free-viewpoint video (FVV) is a framework for representation and coding of sparse multi-view video and subsequent re-rendering from arbitrary viewpoints. It is based on the fundamental concept of storing all information describing a scene’s visual appearance in multi-channel video images. Each pixel’s channels define different attributes of discrete point samples of observed surface...

The Joint Video Team (JVT) of the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) and the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) has standardized a scalable video coding (SVC) extension of the H.264/AVC standard. Thanks to SVC, it is possible to partially transmit or decode a video bitstream resulting in various video qualities (spatial, temporal or reduced delity). Within our lab, the aim is to d...

Drift error is a critical issue in video scrambling which is widely used to protect privacy in surveillance video. However, how to improve video coding efficiency while preventing drift error in video scrambling has not been covered in most studies. Proposed is a prediction restricted scheme for H.264/AVC privacy protected video scrambling. Experiments show that the proposed scheme dramatically...

A new integrated framework for source and channel rate allocation is presented for video coding and transmission over wireless channels without feedback channels available. For a fixed total channel bit rate and a finite number of channel coding rates, the proposed scheme can obtain the near-optimal source and channel coding pair and corresponding robust video coding scheme such that the expect...

In the context of digital video coding, recent insights have led to a new video coding paradigm called Distributed Video Coding, or DVC, characterized by low-complexity encoding and highcomplexity decoding, which is in contrast to traditional video coding schemes. This chapter provides a detailed overview of DVC by explaining the underlying principles and results from information theory and int...