Course Introduction

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Special Topics on Image Engineering- Advanced
Video Coding

• Course Introduction
• Changick Kim (???)
• Fall 2008

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Objectives

• This course deals with advanced topics on video
  coding systems. Topics covered will include
  MPEG-4 visual, H.264 and SVC (scalable video
  coding), and their implementation issues.
  Students are assumed to have taken ICE630 Video
  Coding Theory or equivalent knowledge. Students
  completing this course will be able to get the
  experiences on the most advanced video coding
  schemes.

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Staff and Class Hours

• Instructor
• Changick Kim, R411, ckim_at_icu.ac.kr
• Teaching Assistant (Cyber)
• Jaeseung Ko, R406, jsko0117_at_icu.ac.kr
• Class Hours Monday. 14301600, Wed.
  14301600
• Office Hours Monday. 16001700, Wed.
  16001700

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Textbooks

• Main Textbook
• Iain E.G. Richardson, H.264 and MPEG-4 Video
  Compression, Wiley, 2004, 1st Ed.
• References
• Special Issue on the H.264/AVC video coding
  standard, IEEE Tr. on CSVT, July, 2003.
• http//iphome.hhi.de/suehring/tml/
• A.Bovik, Handbook of Image Video processing,
  Academic Press, 2000.

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Term Project

• The term project may cover any aspect of video
  coding technology you may need to take one
  specific topic related to H.264 or SVC and show
  some improvement based on your own idea.
• Sample topics will be provided and discussed in
  class.
• The project must be in a conference paper form
  written on MS word or pdf and presented in
  Powerpoint presentation at the last stage of the
  course.
• The source codes in C/C and exe file should be
  handed in with the documents.

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Term Project (example topics)

• Fast Mode Decision Algorithm for Inter-Frame
  Coding
• Transform domain transcoding from MPEG-2 to H.264
  with interpolation drift-error compensation
• Fast multiple reference frame motion estimation
  for H.264/AVC
• Shot change detection in transform domain (A
  compressed-domain approach for shot boundary
  detection on H.264/AVC bit streams, Signal
  processing Image communication, pages 473-489,
  vol 23, Issue 7, 2008)
• Finding ROI in transform domain
• Region-of-interest video coding based on rate and
  distortion variations for H.263, Signal
  processing Image Communication, pages 127-142,
  Feb. 2008

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Grading Policy

• Midterm Exam 25
• Final Exam 25
• H/W 20
• Term Project 20
• Attendance 10

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Topics

• Digital video compression fundamentals
• Brief review of block-based video coding schemes
  (H.261 to MPEG-2)
• MPEG-4 Visual
• H.264/MPEG-4 Part 10
• Scalable Video Coding

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Weekly Schedule

• Week 1 (Aug. 25) Introduction to ICE815 and
  Video Coding Fundamentals
• Week 2 (Sept. 1) Video Coding Review (Ch.13)
• Week 3 (Sept. 8) MPEG-4 Visual (Ch4 to 5.3)
• Week 4 (Sept. 15) Coding arbitrary-shaped
  regions (5.4)
• Week 5 (Sept. 22) Scalable/texture video coding
  (5.5 and 5.6)
• Week 6 (Sept. 29) H.264 Overview
• Week 7 (Oct. 6) H.264 Baseline profile
• Week 8 (Oct. 13) Mid-Term Exam
• Week 9 (Oct. 20) H.264 Baseline profile
• Week 10 (Oct. 27) Term project proposal
• Week 11 (Nov. 3) H.264 Main/extended profile,
  Design/performance
• Week 12 (Nov. 10) Visual Quality Measure
• Week 13 (Nov. 17) Scalable Video Coding (I)
• Week 14 (Nov. 24) Scalable Video Coding (II)
• Week 15 (Dec. 1) Presentations of Term Project
• Week 16 (Dec. 8) Final Exam

Above schedule is subject to change