Image Processing H.264/AVC Contribution
HHI plays a prominent role in the development and standardization of the video coding in general and in the standard H.264/AVC in particular:
- Associated Rapporteur of ITU-T/SG 16/VCEG (T. Wiegand) 2000
- Co-chair of Joint Video Teams (MPEG/VCEG) (T. Wiegand) 2001
- Co-chair of MPEG Video (T. Wiegand) 2005
- HHI is responsible for the integration of maintenance of the official H.264/AVC reference software
- Editor of the H.264/AVC standard (T. Wiegand)
- Coordinator of video for DVB-H and editor in DVB-CBMS (T. Wiegand)
- Editor of the visual parts of TS 102 005 and TS 101154 (DVB-AVC)
In addition HHI was a major contributor during the creation process of the H.264 / AVC standard. It has made about 50 contributions and holds a number of patents in the following areas:
- - Context-Based Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coding (CABAC)
- - Multi-Frame Motion-Compensated Prediction
- - Tree-Structured Macroblock Partition
- - Rate-Distortion Optimization of the Encoder in Error-Free Environments (non-normative)
- - Rate-Distortion Optimization of the Encoder in Error-Prone Environments (non-normative)
Since the beginning HHI was involved in the development of hardware and software solutions for H.264/AVC and related applications such as audio/video streaming over wired and wireless channels and can therefore offer a wide portfolio of H.264/AVC products to its customers.