Towards a next generation open-source video codec

Jim Bankoski; Ronald S. Bultje; Adrian Grange; Qunshan Gu; Jingning Han; John Koleszar; Debargha Mukherjee; Paul Wilkins; Yaowu Xu

doi:10.1117/12.2009777

21 February 2013 Towards a next generation open-source video codec

Jim Bankoski, Ronald S. Bultje, Adrian Grange, Qunshan Gu, Jingning Han, John Koleszar, Debargha Mukherjee, Paul Wilkins, Yaowu Xu

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Proceedings Volume 8666, Visual Information Processing and Communication IV; 866606 (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2009777
Event: IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2013, Burlingame, California, United States

Abstract

Google has recently been developing a next generation opensource video codec called VP9, as part of the experimental branch of the libvpx repository included in the WebM project (http://www.webmproject.org/). Starting from the VP8 video codec released by Google in 2010 as the baseline, a number of enhancements and new tools have been added to improve the coding efficiency. This paper provides a technical overview of the current status of this project along with comparisons and other stateoftheart video codecs H. 264/AVC and HEVC. The new tools that have been added so far include: larger prediction block sizes up to 64x64, various forms of compound INTER prediction, more modes for INTRA prediction, ⅛pel motion vectors and 8tap switchable subpel interpolation filters, improved motion reference generation and motion vector coding, improved entropy coding and framelevel entropy adaptation for various symbols, improved loop filtering, incorporation of Asymmetric Discrete Sine Transforms and larger 16x16 and 32x32 DCTs, frame level segmentation to group similar areas together, etc. Other tools and various bitstream features are being actively worked on as well. The VP9 bitstream is expected to be finalized by earlyto mid2013. Results show VP9 to be quite competitive in performance with mainstream stateoftheart codecs.

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Jim Bankoski, Ronald S. Bultje, Adrian Grange, Qunshan Gu, Jingning Han, John Koleszar, Debargha Mukherjee, Paul Wilkins, and Yaowu Xu "Towards a next generation open-source video codec", Proc. SPIE 8666, Visual Information Processing and Communication IV, 866606 (21 February 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2009777

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