Adaptive Encoders: The New Generation of MPEG-2 Encoders

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY
Doc Type: Conference Paper
Content Type: Original Research
Volume: 1999, No. 7, pp. 193–201
Abstract: Whereas current debates concern more object oriented technologies, such as the MPEG-4 standardization process, this paper would like to state the art concerning the MPEG-2 technology. The standard was adopted 4 years ago, and is now currently used for broadcasting digital TV worldwide. Some comments and requirements from the first field trials require new generation of MPEG-2 compression systems, and it was the objective of this paper to try to give some inputs for them. Whereas the first generations were mainly an optimization of the TM5 model with new motion estimators, new bit-rate control strategies and sometimes new mode selection algorithms, this new generation will be adaptive to the picture content and complexity. This adaptation concerns either the input data (such as picture resolution, noise reduction) or the encoder itself (GOP structure, local adaptation, multipass encoding), but also the bandwidth (statistical multiplexing). From the results presented in this paper a 20% to 30% bits saving can be expected on average, and locally more than 50% (for special cases where the encoders fails, i.e. noise, scene cuts, fading,) After being in the cost and system software, the competition is now clearly on the compression efficiency to add as many programs as possible into one single channel. The new techniques developed and introduced in this phase of optimization will certainly be exploited in future standards such as MPEG-4 or MPEG-7 where respectively segmentation and scene characterization will be key technologies.
Publication Date: 1999-07-01
DOI: 10.5594/M001191
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/M001191
Author(s): Philippe GuillotelTHOMSON multimedia R&D France 1, av. de Belle Fontaine - B.P. 19 35511 Cesson-Sevigne - France
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Philippe GUILLOTEL graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications in 1988 with an engineer diploma. He then joined the corporate research center of THOMSON in 1989, within the professional and military part (THOMSON-CSF) first, and then within the consumer group (THOMSON multimedia). He is currently advisory engineer/researcher in the digital video compression and transmission field. Previously he was in charge of algorithm studies around the MPEG and ETSI video coding standards. He has been involved in the development of digital TV and HDTV systems (including compression, storage and digital transmission). He was member of some European projects, and published several papers on video compression.
Dominique ThoreauTHOMSON multimedia R&D France 1, av. de Belle Fontaine - B.P. 19 35511 Cesson-Sevigne - France
Pierre RuellouTHOMSON multimedia R&D France 1, av. de Belle Fontaine - B.P. 19 35511 Cesson-Sevigne - France
Philippe BordesTHOMSON multimedia R&D France 1, av. de Belle Fontaine - B.P. 19 35511 Cesson-Sevigne - France
Bertrand ChupeauTHOMSON multimedia R&D France 1, av. de Belle Fontaine - B.P. 19 35511 Cesson-Sevigne - France
Christophe ChevanceTHOMSON multimedia R&D France 1, av. de Belle Fontaine - B.P. 19 35511 Cesson-Sevigne - France
Copyright: © 1999 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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