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New Video Coding Standards: H.264 and H.265

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Fundamentals of Multimedia

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We introduced basic video compression techniques in Chaps. 10 and 11. We examined the ideas behind the MPEG standards, starting with MPEG-1, 2, and then MPEG-4, and 7. In this chapter, we introduce the newer video compression standards H.264 and H.265. For efficiency, integer transform is adopted in the place of the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT). Other new features include quarter-pixel accuracy in motion vectors, predictive coding in intra frames, in-loop deblocking filtering, and Context-Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coding (CABAC). Moreover, H.265 also facilitates parallel processing. With their superior compression performance over H.263 and MPEG-2, H.264 and H.265 are currently the leading candidates to carry a whole range of video contents on many potential applications.

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    Ze-Nian Li, Mark S. Drew & Jiangchuan Liu

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Li, ZN., Drew, M.S., Liu, J. (2014). New Video Coding Standards: H.264 and H.265. In: Fundamentals of Multimedia. Texts in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05290-8_12

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