Recent, Current and Future Developments in Video Coding

Abstract form only given. Most recent attention in development of video coding algorithms has been devoted to the ITU-T Rec.H.264 | ISO/IEC 14496-10 advanced video coding standard. Recent and current extensions to this standard include developments for professional applications, highly efficient scalable video coding and multi-view video coding. Finally, digital video over various networks, going for higher and higher resolutions, is becoming reality. While this technology is progressing and further optimizations are sought, new challenges appear at the horizon. New types of displays include 3D capabilities, requiring the generation of additional view perspectives beyond available camera positions. Cameras and displays are coming up with permanently increasing frame rates and sizes. The tremendous amount of different applications for digital video requires additional flexibility and reconfigurability of devices. And last not least, increased compression efficiency (meaning rate reduction versus processing cost) is again becoming more important with ever increasing numbers of pixels to be transmitted. The talk will focus on possible solutions to these challenges and discuss the maturity they currently have.