One of the top tasks for video streaming, video surveillance, video conferencing and video broadcasting is a low bit rate and real-time video coding. The most popular low bit rate video compression approach is based on the H.264/AVC standard [1]. This standard provides high compression efficiency due to hybrid video coding which includes intra-frame prediction, variable-size block motion estima...

Mobile video applications have started to dominate the global mobile data traffic in recent years, and both opportunities and challenges have arisen when the emerging mobile cloud paradigm is introduced to support the resource-demanding video processing and networking services. This chapter offers in-depth discussions for contentand context-aware, adaptive, robust, secure, and real-time video a...

Mobile video applications have started to dominate the global mobile data traffic in recent years, and both opportunities and challenges have arisen when the emerging mobile cloud paradigm is introduced to support the resource-demanding video processing and networking services. This chapter offers in-depth discussions for contentand context-aware, adaptive, robust, secure, and real-time video a...

High Efficiency Video Coding is a new video coding standard after H.264/AVC. By introducing a flexible coding unit, which can be recursively divided from 64×64 to 8×8 blocks in a Quadtree-Structure, HEVC achieves significantly higher coding efficiency than the previous standards. With the flexible CU structure, HEVC can effectively adapt to highly varying contents with a smaller CU or to flat c...

Context-based adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC) is a single entropy coding mode of the newest video coding standard, High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC). Despite the high coding efficiency of CABAC, its data dependencies prevent effective parallelization, which also means limited throughput. Accordingly, during the HEVC standardization activity of entropy coding, both coding efficiency ...

According to recent forecast, mobile video will generate over 69 percent of global mobile data traffic by 2018. Due to this the liability on video service providers to match the video quality expectations of the end user has increased. The goal of video coding is to ensure good video quality within the provision of transmission and storage. Bit rates, distortion and complexity are factors that ...