Detailed rate-distortion analysis of H.264 video coding standard and comparison to MPEG2/4

H.264 is an emerging video coding standard, providing significant improvements with respect to its ancestors, like MPEG-2 and MPEG-4. In this paper, we present an evaluation of the most important H.264 coding tools in terms of visual quality and compression efficiency© (2003) COPYRIGHT SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.