Till Halbach and Mathias Wien.
Concepts and Performance of Next-Generation Video Compression Standardization
in Proc. Nordic Signal Processing Symposium (NORSIG),
on board Hurtigruten (Norway),
October 2002
Abstract
The emerging video
coding standard ITU T H.264 | ISO/IEC MPEG 4 AVC is introduced and
described. The concept shows a significantly improved performance as
compared to former video coding standards like H.263 or MPEG 4
Visual. Enhanced inter and intra prediction techniques are the key to
high compression efficiency. In this paper, the main features of the
standard are described, and a performance analysis is given. The
description outlines the algorithms used in the Baseline and in the
Main profile of the standard. The focus of the performance analysis is
on intra coding, giving a detailed comparison to the state of the art
still image compression standard JPEG2000. The simulation results
reveal an excellent objective and subjective compression performance
for the new standard, especially at very low bit rates.
Keywords
Video compression standardization, H.26L, H.264, JPEG, JPEG20000, Motion JPEG2000,
adaptive block-size transforms, intra-frame coding, performance comparison.
Till Halbach
Last modified: January 30, 2002
