This chapter discusses video coding. Digital video compression techniques have played an important role in the world of telecommunication and multimedia systems where bandwidth is still a valuable commodity. Hence, video coding techniques are of prime importance for reducing the amount of information needed for a picture sequence without losing much of its quality, judged by the human viewers.
History of video coding, Page 1 of 2
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