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Digital video. Henning Schulzrinne Columbia University Fall 2003. Video sources. VGA video (computer video output) component video R, G, B + H (horizontal sync), V (vertical sync) Analog video from cameras NTSC or PAL coded color composite or component video Digital images:
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Digital video Henning Schulzrinne Columbia University Fall 2003
Video sources • VGA video (computer video output) • component video • R, G, B + H (horizontal sync), V (vertical sync) • Analog video from cameras • NTSC or PAL coded color • composite or component video • Digital images: • scanners, copiers and fax machines • digital cameras • Images = still pictures • Video = motion pictures
Video types • Bi-level images: black and white • fax, printed output (at pixel level) • Gray level (monochrome) images • Color (continuous tone)
Video compression • unlike audio, no physiological model (masking) • except lower color sensitivity than gray level • statistical redundancy • background correlation • correlations across an image • nearby pixel correlation • frame correlation (motion compensation) • subjective redundancy • impact of different impairments • block artifacts, noise, stair step (“jaggies”), …
Bilevel (Fax) coding • 1728 pixels per line • one-dimensional run-length coding optimized for early memoryless fax machines • Huffman coding • 20:1 compression for simple text documents • MREAD algorithm uses previous scan line • improves compression to 25:1