Some Technologies about Video Compression

Abstract

Many strategies can be developed into mature algorithms to compress video more efficiently than today’s standardized codecs. Future video compression algorithms may employ more adaptability, more refined temporal and spatial prediction models with better distortion metrics. The cost to users is the significant increase of implementation complexity at both the encoder and decoder. Fortunately, it seems that bitrates have a slower doubling time than computing power, so the disadvantage of increasing implementation complexity may one day be balanced with much improved processor capabilities. Development trends and perspectives of video compression analyzed in the following paper, highlighting problems and research directions are also analyzed.