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.

Inspec keywords: multimedia systems; data compression; video coding

Other keywords: standard codec; digital video compression technique; video coding; picture sequence; image compression; multimedia system

Subjects: Image and video coding