TELECOM

Advanced Compression Techniques -MPEG4 / H.264& Video Application

Nº 1903
DATE: CALL
PRICE NIS: 1270 + VAT
DURATION: 1 Day

Course Overview:

The seminar covers technical aspects of MPEG-4. This standard promises to take over the interactive multimedia arena as well as video and music over mobile devices. We will discuss the enhancements in compression of both video and audio/voice, and learn about handling objects. We will cover the topic of multimedia over IP and summarize with a strategic forecast for the interactive multimedia market.

Who should attend?

System designers or potential users of multimedia distribution systems
Engineers that develop either CATV systems or Satellite based DVB systems
People involved in designing multimedia distribution over the Internet

Prerequisities:

Knowledge of MPEG2

Course Outline:

1. Introduction

Compression Standards
General Encoder structure

2. MPEG-2

Structure
Characteristics
Intra & Inter

3. MPEG-4 part 2

Introduction & characteristics
Profiles
Details of Profiles and Functionalities
Object Handling
Error resilience tools: Video packets, Data partitioning, RVLC
Tools in advanced Visual Profiles: Scalability, Sprites, GMC

4. Intra-Frame encoding

Integer DCT
Coefficients Prediction
Quantization
Mb partition

5. Inter-Frame

Multi reference frames
Pixel resolution
Suboptimal solutions for ME

6. De blocking

7. CABAC

Inter & Intra

8. Code Hierarchy

9. Rate model control

R&D model
Bit allocation

10. Market

Motivation and migration
Royalties
Complexity and implementations
Markets

11. Video Quality measurements

Objectives & subjective
PSNR / MSE / MOS / JND
Compression byproducts

12. Broadcasting & MPEG

MPEG-2 System
Program Stream and Transport stream
DVB-world (PSI / SI)
DVBCAmechanisms

13. Summary

14. Annex:

Bibliography

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