Recent advances in video compression: What’s next?

In the last two decades, there have been significant advances in video coding. Since the early 1990s, a series of video coding standards have been developed to satisfy the growing requirements of video applications. Among these, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC is the most recent standard achieving high compression efficiency. The video compression research community has continued working on new advances that go beyond traditional video coding architectures. In this paper, we overview of some recent advances in video coding and their potential applications. We discuss work in distributed coding, texture-based methods, scalable coding, and multi-view video coding.