Video coding hardware architectures form the backbone of modern multimedia systems, enabling efficient compression, transmission and real-time decoding of high-definition video streams. These ...

When we sit down to watch our favorite TV series online, we rarely consider the streaming process – we just hit play. In reality, there’s a video codec seamlessly managing the compression and ...

The JPEG format for encoding still images was standardized during the 1980s and 1990s. It uses the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT), which was developed at the end of the 1970s, and Huffman encoding.

Aidan McGowan explains how converting practical coding ‘labs’ into a series of short videos taking students through the problems step-by-step has improved learning outcomes The 1980s band The Buggles ...

Managing IP sat down with Nokia’s head of multimedia technologies, Ville-Veikko Mattila, to discuss the cutting-edge applications of Versatile Video Coding, and the societal challenges that could be ...

The state-of-the-art video compression standards such as MPEG2, MPEG4, H.264, DivX and VC1 are suitable for applications such as broadcast and streaming video-on-demand. Typically encoder complexity ...

Image and video coding encompasses a diverse array of techniques aimed at reducing the volume of visual data for storage and transmission, while preserving perceptual quality. These methods range from ...

We recently released a new suite of tools to help manufacturers building VC-2 video coding equipment test their designs. VC-2 is a video codec, originally developed by BBC Research & Development which ...