Effective Video Coding for Multimedia Applications

Information has become one of the most valuable assets in the modern era. Within the last 5-10 years, the demand for multimedia applications has increased enormously. Like many other recent developments, the materialization of image and video encoding is due to the contribution from major areas like good network access, good amount of fast processors e.t.c. Many standardization procedures were carrried out for the development of image and video coding. The advancement of computer storage technology continues at a rapid pace as a means of reducing storage requirements of an image and video as most situation warrants. Thus, the science of digital video compression/coding has emerged. This storage capacity seems to be more impressive when it is realized that the intent is to deliver very high quality video to the end user with as few visible artifacts as possible. Current methods of video compression such as Moving Pictures Experts Group (MPEG) standard provide good performance in terms of retaining video quality while reducing the storage requirements. Many books are available for video coding fundamentals.This book is the research outcome of various Researchers and Professors who have contributed a might in this field. This book suits researchers doing their research in the area of video coding.The understanding of fundamentals of video coding is essential for the reader before reading this book. The book revolves around three different challenges namely (i) Coding strategies (coding efficiency and computational complexity), (ii) Video compression and (iii) Error resilience. The complete efficient video system depends upon source coding, proper inter and intra frame coding, emerging newer transform, quantization techniques and proper error concealment.The book gives the solution of all the challenges and is available in different sections. Effective Video Coding for Multimedia Applications Preface......Page 1 Part 1......Page 13 01_Scalable Video Coding......Page 15 02_Scalable Video Coding in Fading Hybrid Satellite-Terrestrial Networks......Page 33 Part 2......Page 49 03_Improved Intra Prediction of H.264/AVC......Page 51 04_Efficient Scalable Video Coding Based on Matching Pursuits......Page 67 05_Motion Estimation at the Decoder......Page 89 Part 3......Page 105 06_Asymmetrical Principal Component Analysis Theory and its Applications to Facial Video Coding......Page 107 07_Distributed Video Coding: Principles and Evaluation of Wavelet-Based Schemes......Page 123 08_Correlation Noise Estimation in Distributed Video Coding......Page 145 09_Non-Predictive Multistage Lattice Vector Quantization Video Coding......Page 169 Part 4......Page 191 10_Error Resilient Video Coding using Cross-Layer Optimization Approach......Page 193 11_An Adaptive Error Resilient Scheme for Packet-Switched H.264 Video Transmission......Page 223 Part 5......Page 239 12_An FPGA Implementation of HW/SW Codesign Architecture for H.263 Video Coding......Page 241