ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces a royalty free video coding standard, Internet video coding standard (IVC), which is developed by Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG). It presents the royalty-free video codec standard, MPEG IVC and examines its performance against Web video coding (WVC), video coding for browsers (VCB), and Advanced Video Coding (AVC) high-profile (HP). The coding performance of IVC has outperformed both WVC and VCB, and approximately reached equal coding performance with the H.264/AVC high profile for typical operational settings, both for streaming and low-delay applications. In the process of IVC encoding, the partitioned blocks are first processed with intra or inter predictions. The chapter presents technical details of main coding tools adopted in MPEG IVC. These coding tools are mostly the same as for other video coding standards, which include intra prediction, inter prediction, adaptive transform and quantization, deblocking loop filters, and entropy coding.
