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 SVC video coding standard. The emerging H.265/HEVC video coding standard as well as 3D video coding will further advance video coding for multimedia communications. This tutorial article gives an overview of these new video...

This article introduces the ISO/IEC MPEG Immersive Video (MIV) standard, MPEG-I Part 12, which is undergoing standardization. The draft MIV standard provides support for viewing immersive volumetric content captured by multiple cameras with six degrees of freedom (6DoF) within a space that determined camera arrangement in capture rig. bitstream format and decoding processes specification along ...