A hybrid system for video compression based on H.264 and JPEG2000

A video compression system is created that combines the JPEG2000 and H.264 standards. JPEG2000 is used to encode the I-frames, while H.264 is used to encode the P-frames. The goal of this thesis is to evaluate the performance of this hybrid system. The system is evaluated using a set of eight test video sequences, which cover a range of resolutions (CIF to 1920 x 1080) and picture content. Rate-distortion performance analysis shows the two systems to be comparable. Subjective analysis reveals that the artifacts of JPEG2000 are propagated to the P-frames. This can be useful in reducing blocking artifacts at low bit-rates. However, blurriness and fuzzy edges, which are the artifacts of JPEG2000, replace the blocking artifacts.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2009

Author dc:creator

• Gu, Zhenya

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Jae S. Lim.

• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/53144

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/53144