ADVANCED VIDEO CODING TECHNIQUES

Description.

The course covers the specialized subject of video compression and extends in three levels – presentation of theory, analysis of relevant algorithms and their application in software and hardware. The topics covered by this course can be summarized in titles as follows:

• Fundamentals of multimedia data processing: sampling and quantization, interpolation techniques and statistics.
• Fundamentals of multimedia processing (colour theory, sampling, quantization, interpolation filters, DCT, 2D-DCT).
• Fundamentals of video compression (Macroblocks, CTUs, Motion Vectors).
• Fundamentals of Information Theory and Codes (entropy, Huffman Coding, Arithmetic Coding, R-D Theory).
• Pre- and Post-Processing of Multimedia Signals (color space transforms, deblocking filter). • Estimation of computational complexity of multimedia algorithms, software performance measurement, software optimization.
• Video Coding Standard: Advanced Video Coding (AVC/H.264).
• Video Coding Standard: High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC/H.265).
• Parallelization techniques in video coding (SIMD, tiles etc.).
• Transcoding technologies
• New Trends in video coding.
All topics are covered in class with a presentation of the corresponding theory and examples, followed by C programming language implementations, optimization techniques and, finally, homework assignments that implement some of the topics. Each student is required to select and complete a final project that gives students the opportunity to apply both their analytical and compositional skills, beginning with their ability to analyze and provide a solution to a video compression issue, implement it effectively through software, and present it appropriately through a report of their final project.

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