Standards Q&A at ITU interact with the study groups
http://groups.itu.int/itu-t/StandardsQA.aspx
Valuable resource on all the video/audio/image coding standards
http://kondor.etf.bg.ac.yu/~emilovan/BookMMCA.htm
B. Girod, “ Overview: Video coding standards”, Stanford University coursework
http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee398b/handouts.htm
On-line courses
A recent edition of the ASEE e-news included an article on free on-line courses and how it is gaining momentum. This article appears below. It mentions MIT's efforts in this since 2001. If interested, MIT's web site for this is http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm
Standards Infobase - http://eresource.uta.edu/cgi-bin/db-ILIStandardsWeb.cgi
An overview of Video compression standards- http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena/course/6/6.344/www/Video/teaching_MIT6344.html
SPIE publications (journals/conferences) on line (UTA Library)
http://spiedigitallibrary.aip.org
IEEE & IET (formerly IEE) publications (journals/conferences) on line (UTA Library) access from IEEEXPLORE
ATSC (advanced television systems committee by FCC) digital TV standard access all standards documents from
http://www.atsc.org/standards/
Video compression basics
http://www.slideshare.net/sanjivmalik/video-compression-basics
Web site for large images
http://www.imagecompression.info/test_images/ The size of the images are very large, such as 3072x2048, 7216x5412, 6088x4550, etc.
VIDEO DATA BASE
http://media.xiph.org/video/derf/ has a set of free 4CIF, 720p, 1080p, and 2160p test clips.
QCIF test sequences
http://trace.eas.asu.edu/yuv/index.html
YUV CIF reference videos
http://www.tkn.tu-berlin.de/research/evalvid/cif.html
LIVE image data base, UT-AUSTIN.
H.R. Sheikh, Z. Wang, L. Cormack, A.C. Bovik, LIVE image quality assessment database, Release 2 (realigned subjective quality data), 2006, [Online]. Available: http://live.ece.utexas.edu/research/quality/.
RGB 4:4:4 video test sequences
The full sets (> 200 GB) are available from FastVDO on an HDD.
http://www.fastvdo.com/HDData.html
2. Short clips of the Viper set at available at the Univ-Hannover ftp site, which requires an MPEG password.
JPEG
http://www.jpeg.org (JPEG resources)
http://www.jpeg.org/public/jfif.pdf (JPEG file interchange format)
JPEG IJG (independent JPEG group) ftp.uu.net:/graphics/jpeg
JPEG reference software
http://www.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/graphics/jpegsr6.zip
JPEG web site
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG>
For still picture coding as used in TIFF, GIF and PNG files which are transferred across the WWW.
MJPEG Motion JPEG (Industry standard not a standrad by ISO/IEC/ITU)
DCT based coder, EZ-DCT coder, DPCM coder
http://www.cbloom.com/src/index_im.html#A1.2
JBIG, Entropy coders, VQ, LOCO-I, LZW
http://datacompression.info/
JPEGTool http://www.dms.auburn.edu/compression/download.html
ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg (JPEG software release 6 from IJG –
email contact: )
Links for lossless jpeg source code.
ftp://ftp.deva.net/pub/sources/graphics/libs/JPEGv1.2.1.tar.Z
ftp://ftp.cs.cornell.edu/pub/multimed/ljpg.tar.Z
http://www.oceana.com/ftp/ljpeg
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/jpeg-faq/part2/section-15.html
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/graphics/jpeg6b.z
JPEG software from Independent JPEG Group ftp://ftp/uu.net
JPEG LS/LOCO
http://www.ece.ubc.ca/spmg/research/jpeg/jpeg_ls/jpegls.html
LOCO-I Software (public domain) (JPEG-LS) http://spmg.ece.ubc.ca/research/jpeg/jpeg_ls/jpegls.html
LOCO_I technical report www.hpl.hp.com/loco (HP Labs)
JPEG-LS ( LOCO-I)
http://www.hpl.hp.com/loco/HPL-98-193R1.pdf
JPEG 2000
The new JasPer (JPEG-2000) release is available from the JasPer Project Home Page (i.e., http://www.ece.uvic.ca/~mdadams/jasper) and the JPEG web site (i.e., http://www.jpeg.org/software) new version 1.900.0, 8 Dec. 2006. JasPer is the software in C for JPEG2000. Also http://jj2000.epfl.com
http://www.kakadusoftware.com (kakadu software by David Taubman)
JPEG-2000 JasPer software http://www.ece.uvic.ca/~mdadams/jasper
JPEG-2000 tutorial http://www.ece.uvic.ca/~mdadams
Sweden Records Missile Tests Using JPEG2000 Technology April 2009
The Swedish Armed Forces deploys a sophisticated, medium-range ground-to-air defense missile system, called RBS 23 BAMSE, manufactured by Swedish company Saab Bofors Dynamics (SBD).
To facilitate the test system, SBD utilizes RGB Spectrum's advanced DGy ultra high resolution recording systems. The DGy™ recorders were selected based upon their superior ability to record and reproduce the most intricate details using advanced JPEG2000 compression. Previously, SBD used scan converters and conventional VCRs which rendered “soft” imagery with difficult to discern text and graphics. The DGy recorders preserve the system's complex symbologies and provide sharp graphics and alpha-numerics for after-action-review.
RGB Spectrum Real Time Newsletter 6/25/09
Advanced JPEG2000 Recording Deployed For Helicopter Mission Simulators
Rockwell Collins, the prime contractor for the U.K. Army's Aviation Command and Tactics Trainer (ACTT), was contracted to execute the sixth phase upgrade of this simulator. The upgrade was designed to provide advanced command and tactical training capability for the Army's helicopter pilots for operation in high threat environments.
The upgrade required a system to record the intricate symbology used in the simulated Integrated Helmet and Display Sight System (IHADSS) unit. Rockwell Collins selected RGB Spectrum's DGy™ digital recording system to meet this demanding requirement. The DGy system was chosen for its superior ability to reproduce intricate detail, achieved through advanced wavelet-based JPEG2000 near lossless compression.
AIC Advanced Image Coding (latest activity in still frame image coding) pl access the web site below.
http://www.bilsen.com/index.htm?http://www.bilsen.com/aic/
Pl access the web site below about ELYSIUM activity in JPEG/JPEG2000/JPEG XR and AIC
www.elysium.ltd.uk ( Richard Clark JPEG webmaster )
(JPEG Convener Daniel Lee convener@jpeg..org )
Microsoft HD photo specification
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/xps/wmphotoeula.mspx
JPEG XR to Ballot for Committee Draft Status (2/5/2008)
The Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) is a working group of ISO/IEC, the International Organization for Standardization / International Electrotechnical Commission, (ISO/IEC JTC1/ SC29/WG1) and of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU-T SG16), responsible for the popular JPEG, JBIG, JPEG-LS, and JPEG 2000 family of imaging standards. The WG1 group meets three times a year, in North America, Europe and Asia. The latest meeting was held on November 12-16, 2007, in Kobe, Japan, hosted by the Japanese National Body and was attended by over 60 delegates from 13 national bodies.
JPEG XR
JPEG XR is a proposed new part (Part 2) of the recently established new work item in JPEG, known as JPEG Digital Imaging System Integration (ISO/IEC 29199 - JPEG DI). JPEG DI aims to provide harmonization and integration between a wide range of existing and new image coding schemes, in order to enable the design and delivery of the widest range of imaging applications, across many platforms and technologies. JPEG DI aims to leverage the rich array of tools developed in and around JPEG and JPEG 2000 to support new image compression methods such as JPEG XR. JPEG XR is designed explicitly for the next generation of digital cameras, based extensively on the technology introduced by Microsoft in its Windows Media Format proposals, at present known as HD Photo. At the Kobe meeting, The JPEG XR specification (Working Draft) was reviewed and will be balloted for promotion to Committee Draft (CD) status before the 44th WG1 San Francisco meeting, March 31 to April 4, 2008. In addition to JPEG XR itself, the creation of two other new parts of the standard on compliance testing and reference software was approved at the meeting. Now adopted as a standard (Nov. 2009)
Digital Cinema
The Digital Cinema (DC) Ad Hoc Group within the JPEG Committee has been successful in seeing their work adopted by the industry. The Digital Cinema Initiatives (www.dcimovies.com) organization has adopted JPEG 2000 for the distribution of digital movies to theatres. The successful rollout of this solution continues unabated with over 5000 theatres supporting digital cinema, including 1000 stereoscopic theatres. The first live-action stereoscopic feature encoded with JPEG 2000, Beowulf, is being released on November 16, 2007. The Digital Cinema Ad Hoc Group has initiated work on studio broadcast applications. In addition, the group has begun work on the archival of motion pictures and related contents.
JPEG 2000 related work
At the Kobe meeting, the JPEG Committee confirmed the endorsement of Intellectual Resource Initiative (IRI) as JTC 1 Registration Authority (RA) for use in JPSEC. IRI is a Non Profit Organization, based in Japan, established to create policy proposals on the importance of intellectual information in society.
JPEG 2000 Part 9 known as JPIP, allows powerful and efficient network access to JPEG 2000 images and their metadata in a way that exploits the best features of the JPEG 2000 standard. Interoperability testing among several JPIP implementations continued. Participation from additional organizations is solicited, and testing will continue over the Internet between meetings. For more information please contact .
JPEG 2000 Part 10 Ad Hoc Group has been working on the extension of JPEG 2000 to three-dimensional images such as Computer Tomography (CT) scans and scientific simulations. JP3D is currently in balloting phase for International Standard (IS) status. Due to an increased interested for compression technologies for floating-point data, the JPEG Committee has issued a call for information on applications and compression technology for floating-point data. Responses will be reviewed at the 44th WG1 San Francisco Meeting, March 31 - April 4, 2008.
JPEG 2000 Part 11 Wireless, also known as JPWL, has become an International Standard (ISO/IEC 15444-11). JPWL has standardized tools and methods to achieve the efficient transmission of JPEG 2000 imagery over an error-prone wireless system.
JPEG 2000 Part 13 standardizes an entry level JPEG 2000 encoder with widespread applications, intended to be implemented on a license and royalty fee free basis, was published as ISO/IEC 15444-13.
JPSearch
ISO/IEC 24800, Still Image Search, known as JPSearch, is a project that aims to develop a standard framework for searching large collections of images. This project is divided in five parts. <UL
· Part 1 - Framework and System Components, is a Technical Report that introduces the JPSearch architecture and outlines the organization of the JPSearch specifications.
· Part 2 - Schema and Ontology Registration and Identification, standardizes a format for the import, export and exchange of ontology.
· Part 3 - JPSearch Query Format, which is developed jointly with MPEG, allows for the expression of search criteria, the aggregation of return results and the management of query process.
· Part 4 - Metadata Embedded in Image Data (JPEG and JPEG 2000) file format, standardizes image data exchange format with associated metadata.
· Part 5 - Data Interchange Format between Image Repositories, standardizes a format for the exchange of image collections and respective metadata between JPSearch compliant repositories.
At the meeting, requirements for each part have been reviewed and updated, and Working Drafts for Part 2 and Part 4 and Committee Draft of Part 3 have been produced.
Advanced Image Coding
In the Advanced Image Coding (AIC) Ad Hoc Group, presentations were made regarding evaluation metrics and scalable distributed video coding. A call for contributions was issued on development of comprehensive guidelines for image quality evaluations.
Contributions
The following presentations were given at the meeting in plenary sessions.
· "Proposal for archival formats for cinematic content," Joerg Mohr, Fraunhofer IIS, Germany.
· "Lossy and lossless floating point compression with JPEG 2000," Dominic Springer, Fraunhofer IIS, Germany.
· "Scalable distributed video coding as a new scheme for advanced image coding," Mourad Ouaret, Frederic Dufaux, Touradj Ebrahimi, EPFL, Switzerland. On behalf of DISCOVER Project.
· "ED-Cine - Digital Cinema Distribution and Virtual Interleaving for JPWL," Fabrizio Frescura, G. Baruffa, University of Perugia / Digilab2000, Italy.
· "Inter-View Coding for Stereoscopic Digital Applications," Guillaume Boisson, Thomson R&D, France
"We are excited that under the JPEG brand our work brings new innovations to the digital camera market place," said Dr. Daniel Lee of eBay Inc., Convener of the JPEG Committee. "The JPEG XR standard in combination with the suite of technologies developed for JPEG 2000 offer new opportunities for innovation and enhanced consumer experiences."
The JPEG web site ( http://www.jpeg.org ) has sponsorship opportunities for all companies involved in developments around JPEG. The marketing departments of interested companies should contact the JPEG webmaster, Richard Clark ( ), for this high-traffic site.
The next, 44th WG1 Meeting will be held in San Francisco, California, USA, hosted by the US National Body, March 31 - April 4, 2008.
More information is available at www.jpeg.org, or by contacting Lou Sharpe, JPEG PR Chair at .
MPEG Industrial forum
http://www.m4if.org
MPEG-2
MPEG <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG>
An overview of MPEG-2 standard,
” http://vsr.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~jan/MPEG/HTML/mpeg_tech.html
http://www.mpeg.org (MPEG resources)
www.sarnoff.com Link to compliance bitstreams for MPEG-1/2 decoders
http://www.vol.it/MPEG (MPEG companies listing)
http://www.mpeg.org/ (MPEG Pointers and resources: product reviews) http://www.mpeg2.de/ (MPEG2 & DVD)
PP slides on MPEG-1/MPEG-2 by Dr. M. Isnardi, Sarnoff Corpn., Princeton , NJ.
http://www.leitch.com/resources/tutorials/mpeg-2VideoCompression.pdf
http://mpeg.nist.gov/welcome.php
MPEG-2 software www.mpeg.org./MSSG (mpeg2v12.zip)
Mpeg-2 http://www.mpeg.org/MSSG
There is a reference software available for MPEG-2 (ISO 13818) (includes, audio, video and systems) from ISO’s website. http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/s025038_ISO_IEC_TR_13818-5_1997(E)_Software_Simulation.zip
. There is also a version of MPEG-2 software available from Berkeley Multimedia Research Center at ftp://mm-ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/multimedia/mpeg2/.
http://www.mpeg.org/MPEG/video/mssg-free-mpeg-software.html
http://libmpeg2.sourceforge.net/downloads.html
http://www.vtk.org/get-software.php
ftp://ftp.hhi.de/ieee-tcsvt/
Our MPEG-21 work is summarized at
http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/ssm/index.html
Some MPEG21 documents are available at
http://www.chiariglione.org/mpeg/working_documents.htm
DCTune
http://vision.arc.nasa.gov/dctune
Berkeley multimedia research center (excellent web site)
http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/frame/research/mpeg/
There is a reference software available for MPEG-2 (ISO 13818) (includes, audio, video and systems) from ISO’s website. http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/s025038_ISO_IEC_TR_13818-5_1997(E)_Software_Simulation.zip
The above software seems to have been developed in 1997.
There is also a version of MPEG-2 software available from Berkeley Multimedia Research Center at ftp://mm-ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/multimedia/mpeg2/. But I think this covers only MPEG-2 video.
MPEG-2 VIDEO CODEC SOFTWARE
MPEG 2 software in public domain.
http://www.mpeg.org/MPEG/video/mssg-free-mpeg-software.html
SDTV TEST SEQUENCES 31 May 2009.
ftp://vqeg.its.bldrdoc.gov/SDTV/
ftp://vqeg.its.bldrdoc.gov/SDTV/VQEG_PhaseI/TestSequences/Reference/
Also, if SD576, 4:2:0 works then you can download them from http://media.xiph.org/ldv/pub/test_sequences/601/
VISUALmpeg Link (MPEG-1 and MPEG-2):
http://www.mpeg-analyzer.com/demo/VISUALmpeg_demo.zip
VISUALmpegAVC Link (MPEG-4 AVC / H.264):
http://www.mpeg-analyzer.com/demo/VISUALmpegAVC_demo.zip
Username: sequence
Password: header
Adobe flash player9 (flash graphics video and audio)
http://www.kaourantin.net
H.264/MPEG-4 PART 10 (JVT AVC)
I think that JCTVC-G399 may be something like what you are looking for (Nov. 2011)
(http://phenix.it-sudparis.eu/jct/doc_end_user/documents/7_Geneva/wg11/JCTVC-G399-v3.zip
Text of H. 264 standard (2 Dec. 2010)
http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-H.264-201003-I
Here are some good links to get an understanding of what MPEG-4, H.264 and AAC are:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s&threadid=62723
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=96059
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H264
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Coding
http://daringfireball.net/2007/04/some_facts_about_aac
White paper MPEG-4 Part 10 advanced video coding AVC – (H>264) Scientific Atlanta.
http://www.scientificatlanta.com/products/customers/white-papers/7007887B.pdf
http://www.VCODEX.COM/h264.html
Valuable web site related to H.264 and video coding:
http://ip.hhi.de/imagecom_G1/assets/pdfs/
JM bug tracking site
(https://ipbt.hhi.de/mantis/main_page.php).
Latest H.264 standard (1 March 2008)
http://ftp3.itu.int/av-arch/jvt-site/2007_06_Geneva/ document JVT-X201.
Download proposals submitted to AVC from
http://wftp3.itu.int/av-arch/jvt-site/
Digital TV Solutions www.elecard.com
Elecard is a leading provider of software and hardware solutions implemented on MPEG-2 and AVC/H.264 video compression technology.
Based on more than 20-year research of multimedia and network technologies, Elecard now offers advanced and cost-effective IPTV and DVB broadcasting servers and STBs. The IPTV product line comprises AVC/H.264 encoders, VoD and TimeShift servers, DVB-IP video gateways, DVB-C, DVB-T and IP set-top-boxes.
A commercial H.264 stream analyzer tool supporting higher bit-depths
(10-14 bits) and chroma formats (4:2:2, 4:4:4)?
2.) YUV viewer with the above capabilities,
Where to download raw YUV data or encoded
H.264 streams for 1920x1080 (10-14 bits, 4:2:2, 4:4:4) formats.
1.) H.264 Analysis Tool（Supports High10 and High4:2:2）
http://www.nikon-sys.co.jp/products/index_1_1_en.htm
2.) MPEG-4 Analysis Tool
http://www.nikon-sys.co.jp/products/index_1_2_en.htm
3.) Ns YUV Player
http://www.nikon-sys.co.jp/products/index_1_3_en.htm
4.) Ns YUV Player-FR
http://www.nikon-sys.co.jp/products/index_1_4_en.htm
5.) VQ-1000(Japanese language only)
http://www.nikon-sys.co.jp/products/index_1_0.htm
SVC versus simulcast for HD content
http://www.eurasip.org/Proceedings/Ext/PCS2007/defevent/papers/cr1199.pdf
http://www.dustsigns.de/cgi-bin/dwnldcnt.cgi?file=Files/FH/H264SVCQ.pdf
http://standard.pictel.com/ftp/video-site/0201_Gen New ftp site recently established for JVT use is H.264/AVC reference SOFTWARE http://iphome.hhi.de/suehring/tml/download/jm11.zip.
http://iphome.hhi.de/suehring/tml/JVT-Q042.zip JM manual.
software manual (H.264) that is available at:
http://iphome.hhi.de/suehring/tml/JM%20Reference%20Software%20Manual%20(JVT-X072).pdf
MVC SEQUENCES (2/20/2011)
Please see JVT-U211 for links to the sequences used during the MVC development: http://wftp3.itu.int/av-arch/jvt-site/2006_10_Hangzhou/JVT-U211.zip.
3D VIDEO SEQUENCES
MPEG has also issued a draft call for proposals on 3D video coding and a number of new multiview sequences have been made available for that project: http://mpeg.chiariglione.org/working_documents/explorations/3dav/3dv-cfp.zip
HTML5 video in internet explorer 9: H.264 and H.264 alone 1 May, 2010
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/04/html5-video-in-internet-explorer-9-h264-and-h264-alone.ars
latest H.264 reference software
http://iphome.hhi.de/suehring/tml/
JVT-X072 for a software user's guide and JVT-X101 for algorithm descriptions for H.264/MPEG-4 Part 10.
(JVT – Joint Video Team is made of ITU-T
and ISO/IEC leading to the standard H.264 and MPEG-4 Part 10)
H.264 documents; ftp://standards.polycom.com