Video coding for engineers

Description

Video coding training course description

This course investigates the characteristics of video coding with an emphasis on compression and the standards used in IP networks.

What will you learn

• Explain how video coding works.
• Describe the main video coding standards.
• Evaluate and compare the major video coding standards.

Video coding training course details

Video coding training course contents

• Introduction

Video coding systems, encoding, transmission, decoding. Digital video formats: Old formats (CIF…), PC formats (VGA…), SD, HD, UHD.

• Video codecs

What is a CODEC, pictures and audio, digitisation, sampling, quantisation, encoding, compressing.

• Codec types

Lossy, lossless, uncompressed. Quality, bandwidth.

• Video

Fps, bitstreams, pictures, frames, fields. Aspect ratios.

• Colour

Colour perception, RGB, YUV, YCbCr sampling, 4:00, 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4.

• Hybrid video coding scheme

Picture partitioning, intra prediction, inter prediction, motion estimation, residual coding, in loop filtering, entropy coding.

• Containers

Relationship with codecs, audio, video. Audio Video Interleave (.avi), .asf, QuickTime, AVCHD, Flash, .mp4, 3gp. MPEG-TS.

• MPEG

Analysing MPEG frames.

• Video coding standards

H.264/AVC: Profiles MPEG, bit rates, resolution. I, B, P frames, GOP. MPEG 2, MPEG 4, H.264, H.265, VP9, AV1. Hands onand levels, how it works. H.265/HEVC: Profiles and levels, Quadtrees, slices, how it works. Open video coding: VP8, VP9, AV1.