7 Motion Video Compression
DOI: 10.1201/9781003420415-7
7.1 Motion video
Motion video contains massive amounts of redundant information. This is because each image has redundant information and also because there are very few changes from one image to the next.
Motion video image compression relies on two facts:
- Images have a great deal of redundancy (repeated images, repetitive, superfluous, duplicated, exceeding what is necessary, and so on).
- The human eye and brain have limitations on what they can perceive.
Chapter 5 discussed how JPEG encodes still images. Motion video is basically a series of still images. The basis of motion JEPG (MPEG) is to treat the video information as a series of compressed images and to allow for compression ...
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