Course Outline & Lecture Notes

(The lecture notes are zipped and encrypted using Winzip, please contact Prof. Lin for the password for decrypting the files)

1. Overview [2-page][6-page] (09/08/04)

2. Video basics and Video coding fundamentals [2-page][6-page] (10/11/04 updated)

3. Lossless Compression [2-page][6-page] (10/11/04)

4. Lossy Compression: Quantization [2-page][6-page] (10/18/04)

5. Discrete Cosine Transform [2-page][6-page] (10/18/04)

6. JPEG [2-page][6-page] (11/8/04)

Recommended reading: G. K. Wallace, “The JPEG still picture compression standard,” Commun. of the ACM, vol. 34, pp. 31-44, Feb. 1992.

7. Motion Compensated Prediction [2-page][6-page] (11/23/04)

8. H.261 [2-page][6-page] (11/29/04)

Recommended reading: M. L. Liou, “Video telephony as an ISDN application,” IEEE Commun. Magazine, vol. 28, pp. 30-38, Feb. 1990.

Software: H. 261 reference software and document (RM8)

9. MPEG-1 [2-page][6-page] (11/29/04)

10. MPEG-2 [2-page][6-page] (12/06/04)

Software: MPEG-2 reference software (TM5)

11. H.263, H.263+ [2-page][6-page] (12/06/04)

Recommended readings:

N. Färber, B. Girod, and E. Steinbach, “Performance of the H.263 video compression standard,” J. VLSI Signal Processing, no. 17, pp. 101-111, 1997.

G. Côté, B. Erol, G. Gallant, and F. Kossentini, “H.263+: Video coding at low bit rates,” IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol., vol. 8, no. 7, pp. 849-866, Nov. 1998.

Software: H. 263+ reference software and document (TMN8)

12. Other Compression Techniques: VQ, Wavelet, and Fractal

13. MPEG-4 [2-page][6-page] (12/06/04)

Document: ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 N2502, FDIS of ISO/IEC 14496-2, “Generic coding of audio-visual objects: Part 2- Visual,” (MPEG-4), Nov. 1998

Software: Microsoft (July 3rd 2000 Version 2 FPDAM1-1.0-000703 Version 2.2.0), MoMuSys (FPDAM1 (Version 2) 1.0)

14. MPEG-7 [2-page][6-page] (1/27/05)

15. JPEG-2000 [2-page][6-page]

Recommended reading: D. Taubman, “High performance scalable image compression with EBCOT,” IEEE Trans. Image Processing, vol. 9, no. 7, pp. 1158-1170.

Document: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 1 N1646R, FCD, “JPEG2000 Image Coding System,” Mar. 2000.

Software: JPEG-2000 source code (Kakadu_V2.2.3 from D. Taubman)

16. MPEG-AVC/H.264 [2-page][6-page] (1/27/05)

Download Winzip v8.0 freeware (1.2Mb)

Download Acrobat Reader 4.05 to read PDF files (7Mb)

Resources (documents, software, and papers)

Tools:

H.263 codec & player [OptiPixPlux.exe] [Manual]