Resources on Image/Video Coding

 

Compiled by Chia-Wen Lin (updated Oct. 23, 2001)

 

 

1. JPEG:

 

Software & Documents:

ISO/IEC JTC1 10918-1 (ITU-T Rec. T.81), Information technology ¡V Digital compression and coding of continuous-tone still images: requirements and guidelines, 1994.

ISO/IEC JTC1 10918-2 (ITU-T Rec. T.83), Information technology ¡V Digital compression and coding of continuous-tone still images: compliance testing, 1995.

ISO/IEC JTC1 10918-3 (ITU-T Rec. T.84), Information technology ¡V Digital compression and coding of continuous-tone still images: extensions, 1996.

 

Books:

W. B. Pennebaker and J. L. Mitchell, JPEG still image data compression standard, New York, NY,: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 19931.

 

Classical papers:

G. K. Wallace, ¡§The JPEG still picture compression standard,¡¨ Commun. of the ACM, vol. 34, pp. 31-44, Feb. 1992.

 

2. JPEG-2000:

 

Software & Documents:

To be added

 

Books:

D. Tauman and M. W. Marcellin, JPEG-2000: Image compression fundamentals, practice and standards, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2001.

 

Classical papers:

D. Taubman, ¡§High performance scalable image compression with EBCOT,¡¨ IEEE Trans. Image Processing, vol. 9, no. 7, pp. 1158-1170.

Special issue on JPEG-2000, Signal Processing: Image Communication, Jan. 2002.

 

3. H.261, H.263, H.26L:

 

Software & Documents:

H.261

ITU-T Recommendation H.261, ¡§Video codec for audiovisual services at p x 64 kbits/s,¡¨ Mar. 1993.

H. 261 reference software and document (RM8)

H.263

ITU-T Recommendation H.263, ¡§Video coding for low bit-rate communication,¡¨ Nov. 1995.

ITU-T Draft Recommendation H.263 Version2 (H.263+), ¡§Video coding for low bit-rate communication,¡¨ Jan 1998.

H. 263+ reference software and document (TMN8)

H.26L

To be added

 

Books:

Mohammed Ghanbari, Video Coding : An introduction to standard codecs, IEE, UK, 2000.

V. Bhaskaran and K. Konstantinides, Image and Video Compression Standards: Algorithm and Architectures, 2nd Edition, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 1997 .

K. R. Rao and J. J. Hwang, Techniques and Standards for Image, Video, and Audio Coding, Prentice Hall , 1996.

 

Classical papers:

H.261

M. L. Liou, ¡§Video telephony as an ISDN application,¡¨ IEEE Commun. Magazine, vol. 28, pp. 30-38, Feb. 1990.

M. L. Liou, ¡§Overview of p x 64 kbits/s video coding standard,¡¨ Commun. of the ACM, vol. 34, pp. 60-63, Apr. 1991.

H.263, H.263+

N. Faerber, B. Girod, and E. Steinbach, ¡§Performance of the H.263 video compression standard,¡¨ J. VLSI Signal Processinge, 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.

H.26L

To be added

 

4. MPEG:

 

Software & Documents:

MPEG-1

ISO/IEC 11172-2, ¡§Coding of moving pictures and associated audio for digital storage media at up to about 1.5 Mbits/s,¡¨ (MPEG-1), part 2: Video, Oct. 1993.

MPEG-2

ISO/IEC 13818-2, ¡§Generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio¡¨. (MPEG-2), Part 2: Video, 1995.

MPEG-2 reference software (TM5)

MPEG-4

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.

MPEG-4 reference software

Microsoft (July 3rd 2000 Version 2 FPDAM1-1.0-000703 Version 2.2.0)

MoMuSys (FPDAM1 (Version 2) 1.0)

MPEG-7

Special issue on MPEG-7, Signal Processing: Image Communication, Jan. 2002.

Special issue on JPEG-2000, Signal Processing: Image Communication, Jan. 2002.

 

Books:

A. Puri and T. Chen, Multimedia systems, standards, and networks, Marcel Dekker, Inc., 2000.

M. Ghanbari, Video Coding : An introduction to standard codecs, IEE, UK, 2000.

B. G. Haskell, A. Puri, A. N. Netravali, Digital Video : An Introduction to MPEG-2, Chapman & Hall, New York, NY, 1996

J. L. Mitchell, W. B. Pennebaker, C. E. Fogg, D. J. LeGall, MPEG Video: Compression Standard, Chapman & Hall, New York, NY, 1996

 

Classical papers:

MPEG-1/2

D. J. LeGall, ¡§MPEG: A video compression standard for multimedia applications,¡¨ Commun. of the ACM, vol. 34, pp. 47-58, Apr. 1991.

D. J. LeGall, ¡§The MPEG video compression algorithm,¡¨ Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 4, pp. 129-140, Apr. 1992.

MPEG-4

Special issue on MPEG-4, IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol., vol. 7, no. 1, Feb. 1997.

Special issue on MPEG-4, Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 15, issue 4-5, Jan. 2000.

MPEG-7

Special issue on MPEG-7, IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol., vol. 11, no. 6, Jun. 2001.

Special issue on MPEG-7, Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 16, issue 1-2, Sep. 2000.

 

Open MPEG sources collected by Dr. Leonardo Chiariglione (the father of MPEG)

 

5. H.323:

 

OpenH323 (a public H.323 forum providing source codes and documents)

 

Tools:

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