Inspec keywords: code standards; coding errors; video coding; extrapolation; data compression

Other keywords: compression efficiency improvement; linear extrapolation; boundary macro-blocks; pre-padding step; object boundary padding technique; reference video objects; boundary macro-block coding; MPEG-4 video compression; prediction errors minimisation

Subjects: Video signal processing; Interpolation and function approximation (numerical analysis); Interpolation and function approximation (numerical analysis); Image and video coding