DYNAMIC CONFIGURATION: BEYOND VIDEO CODING STANDARDS

Video coding standards are essential to a wide range of applications, but have certain limitations. New, flexible approaches to video compression have the potential to speed up adoption of new coding techniques, to improve compression performance through adaptive coding and to support multiple coding standards on a single platform. In this paper we describe the MPEG Reconfigurable Video Coding initiative, which enables flexible configuration of coding tools drawn from a standard Video Tool Library. Further, we present an alternative framework, dynamically configurable video compression, in which the coding tools themselves may be created, configured and re-configured adaptively. We present an initial prototype of this framework and discuss performance results and research

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