Recent Advances in Image/Video Compression and Coding

Dear Colleagues,

Recently, the demand for multimedia services, especially in the video domain, has rapidly increased. The need for higher resolution, framerate and sampling precision grows annually, with 4K resolution becoming a common part of video broadcasting and streaming. Indeed, the research community nowadays aspires toward on 8K resolution. The demand for higher framerate has also risen in the last years, especially from companies dealing with video postproduction. Last but not least, the high dynamic range (HDR) technique, as a common feature which can boost image and video quality, has come to the fore. On the one hand, all these parameters can improve an observer´s experience; conversely, they exert a large impact on the final bitrate and bandwidth. Such huge quantities of data are processed, stored or transmitted. This represents a major challenge for industry, encouraging researchers and companies to develop new compression techniques and standards. Newly developed codecs should reduce the amount of data and keep perceived quality at the same level.

This Special Issue focuses on the theoretical and practical design issues of video compression and coding. Our aim is to bring together researchers, industry experts and companies working in the related areas to share their new ideas, latest findings, and state-of-the-art achievements with others.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Image coding and compression;
• Video coding and compression;
• Machine learning in image and video coding;
• Coding techniques for 3D and immersive video;
• Quality of service (QoS);
• Quality of experience (QoE);
• Machine learning in QoS and QoE;
• Adaptive bitrate streaming.

Dr. Miroslav Uhrina
Dr. Jaroslav Frnda
Dr. Lukas Sevcik
Guest Editors

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• image and video coding
• image and video compression
• multimedia communication
• machine learning
• QoE
• QoS
• video streaming