State-of-the-Art Video Transmission

Abstract

This book discusses ideas to improve video transmission systems via enhancing the rate-distortion efficiency of the video compression scheme. The rate-distortion efficiency of today’s video compression designs is based on a sophisticated interaction between various motion representation possibilities, waveform coding of differences, and waveform coding of various refreshed regions. Modern video codecs achieve good compression results by efficiently combining the various technical features. The most successful and widely used designs today are called hybrid video codecs. The naming of these codecs is due to their construction as a hybrid of MCP and picture coding techniques. The ITU-T Recommendation H.263 is an example for a hybrid video codec specifying a highly optimized video syntax.