DocumentCode
3201022
Title
Technical overview of VP8, an open source video codec for the web
Author
Bankoski, Jim ; Wilkins, Paul ; Xu, Yaowu
Author_Institution
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA
fYear
2011
fDate
11-15 July 2011
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
6
Abstract
VP8 is an open source video compression format supported by a consortium of technology companies. This paper provides a technical overview of the format, with an emphasis on its unique features. The paper also discusses how these features benefit VP8 in achieving high compression efficiency and low decoding complexity at the same time.
Keywords
Internet; public domain software; video codecs; video coding; VP8; World Wide Web; open source video codec; open source video compression format; Automatic voltage control; Continuous wavelet transforms; Entropy; Information filters; Quantization; VP8; Video Codec; Web Video; WebM;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2011 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location
Barcelona
ISSN
1945-7871
Print_ISBN
978-1-61284-348-3
Electronic_ISBN
1945-7871
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICME.2011.6012227
Filename
6012227
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