Guest Editorial Screen Content Video Coding and Applications

This special issue aims to present recent technical advances in screen content video coding and applications. Screen content video has recently evolved from a niche to the mainstream due to the rapid advances in mobile and cloud technologies. Real-time, low-latency transport of screen visuals between devices in the form of screen content video is becoming prevalent in many applications, e.g., wireless displays, screen mirroring, display interfaces, screen/desktop virtualization and cloud-based mobile virtual reality. Today’s commonly-used video coding methods, however, have been developed primarily with camera-captured content in mind. These new applications create an urgent need for efficient coding of screen content video, especially as the support of 4k or even 8k resolution begins to achieve mass market appeal.