Communicating Pictures—The Future

In this chapter the demands of new content types and formats are discussed, providing an insight into the performance levels required for future standards. It examines how parameters such as spatial resolution, temporal resolution, dynamic range, and color gamut affect the viewing experience, and how these parameters can be exploited to provide more immersive visual experiences. The chapter argues for an increased use of perceptual models in the coding process and suggests that a new rate–quality optimization approach is required if we are to efficiently and effectively code the immersive formats of the future. In this context, new approaches to compression are proposed based on texture analysis and synthesis, moderated by in-loop quality metrics.