Handbook of Image and Video Processing, 2nd Edition

6.1

Basic Concepts and Techniques of Video Coding and the H.261 Standard

Barry Barnett,     IBM Corporation

1 Introduction

2 Introduction to Video Compression

3 Video Compression Application Requirements

4 Digital Video Signals and Formats

4.1 Sampling of Analog Video Signals

4.2 Digital Video Formats

5 Video Compression Techniques

5.1 Entropy and Predictive Coding

5.2 Block Transform Coding — The Discrete Cosine Transform

5.3 Quantization

5.4 Motion Compensation and Estimation

6 Video Encoding Standards and H.261

6.1 The H.261 Video Encoder

7 Closing Remarks.

References

1 Introduction

The subject of video coding is of fundamental importance to many areas in engineering and the natural and perceptual sciences. Video engineering ...