The Latest MPEG Standards and Industrial Requirements for Media Streaming

Abstract

This paper presents an overview of image compression covering JPEG, the MPEG Standards, H.262, H.263 and H.264, VQ, Wavelet and Fractal Transforms. Error resilience in terms of an unequal error protection (UEP) scheme is also covered. The report concludes with a very brief mention of the protocols used in streaming multimedia data.

Keywords

JPEG MPEG-1 MPEG-2 MPEG-4 MPEG-7 MPEG-21 AVC H.261 H.262 H.263 H.264 VQ Wavelet Fractal UEP UDP RTSP RTP RTCP TCP

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