New MPEG-4-AVC/H.264 Profiles for Professional and High-Quality Video Applications

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Journal Article
Content Type: Original Research
Abbreviated Title: SMPTE Mot. Imag. J
Volume: 118, No. 1, pp. 45–49
Abstract: To respond to strong demands for compression technology appropriate to high-quality video applications, the Joint Video Team (JVT) of MPEG and ITU-T has recently completed the standardization of five additional profiles for the MPEG-4 Part 10/H.264 video coding standard (ISO/IEC 14496–10ITU-T H.264) (also known as MPEG-4-AVC (for Advanced Video Coding). These new profiles have been developed to serve applications in the professional and semi-professional domains with enhanced compression capabilities for color sampling structure ranging up to 4:4:4 and bit depth dynamic ranges up to 14 bits per sample. Four of the five new profiles support “intra-only” applications with demands for extreme low-latency operation, simple editing, and frame random-access functionality. Potential applications of these new profiles include studio/cinematography camera and camcorders, digital video recording and editing systems, studio production and post-production systems, content contribution systems, and high-resolution display systems. This paper discusses the design, coding structure and tools, operation modes, profile definitions, and target application environments of these new profiles. Their improved coding performance will also be demonstrated by the rate distortion curves comparing these new profiles with some of the existing state-of-the-art compression solutions.
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
DOI: 10.5594/J14990
ISSN: Print: 1545-0279 | Electronic: 2160-2492
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/J14990
Author(s): Haoping YuManager of the Future Video Technologies Group at Huawei Technologies in Plano, TX.
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Haoping Yu is manager of the Future Video Technologies Group at Huawei Technologies in Plano, TX. From July 1995 to June 2008, he worked at Thomson Corporate Research in Indianapolis, IN, as member/senior member/principal member of the technical staff. He has worked on digital video processing and compression for terrestrial and satellite video broadcast systems as well as professional video applications. He co-developed the memory reduction system that was integrated in Thomson's first high-definition MPEG decoder IC. He developed a high-definition video format for the introduction of DirecTV HD video broadcasting and was actively involved in the development of the MPEG-AVC/H.264 “New Profiles for Professional Applications” amendment. Currently, Yu is focused on video compression and transmission for IP-based video applications. He is an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology.
Copyright: © 2009 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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