Figure 1: Chronological progression of ITU and MPEG standard [10]

Figure 2: Standard Motion Compensated Video Coding

Figure 3: An illustration of inter-frame prediction in I, P and B Frames

Figure 4: Effectiveness of basic techniques. 1) No MC; 2) Adding Skip mode to form a CR coder. Case 3) Allow only zero-valued MVs. 4) Allow integer-pel MC. 5) Allow half-pel MC 6) Allowing 4-MV; 7) Allowing quarter-pel MC. Refer to [7] for additional details


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Figure 5: H.264 Block diagram and features [10]

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Table 1: Key compression features in standard codecs

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Table 2: Codecs typically used in standard applications and roadmap