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Digital video is the most interesting of all multimedia data. However, there is a price to pay — it requires maximum bandwidth for transmission, and a large space for storage. For example, if you want to transmit the digital television color video (with frame size 720×480) through a network in real time at a rate of 60 frame/sec, you would require about 497 million (=720*480*60*24) bits/sec of bandwidth. This is too high a bitrate for consumer applications. Therefore, efficient video compression techniques are essential in order to make digital video applications feasible. In this Chapter, the fundamentals of video compression technique are first presented. They are followed by brief overview of a few selected general purpose video coding standards.
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Mandal, M.K. (2003). Digital Video Compression Techniques. In: Multimedia Signals and Systems. The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 716. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0265-4_9
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