Contributors in Video

Video

Model-based coder

Entertainment; Video

Communicating a higher-level model of the image than pixels is an active area of research. The idea is to have the transmitter and receiver agree on the basic model for the image; the transmitter ...

Mpeg

Entertainment; Video

Motion Picture Expert Group. Similar to spatial compression of JPEG, but adds frame-to-frame temporal compression. Compaction is typically 3 times better than video JPEG. Like the JPEG standard, it ...

Mpeg-1

Entertainment; Video

MPEG-1 defines a set of international standards for the compression and decompression of digital video signals. MPEG-1 specifies a video resolution of 352-by-240 pixels compressed at 30 frames per ...

Mpeg-2

Entertainment; Video

MPEG-2 is targeted for use with high-bandwidth broadcast applications specifying 720-by-480 playback at 60 fields per second at data rates ranging from 500 kilobytes per second to more than two ...

Multimedia

Entertainment; Video

Refers to the delivery of information that combines different content formats (motion video, audio, still images, graphics, animation, text, etc.). A somewhat ambiguous term that describes the ...

Noise

Entertainment; Video

A general term used in electronics to indicate any unwanted electrical signal, unrelated to the original signal. Video noise is generally manifested as snow, graininess, ghost images or picture ...

Freeze

Entertainment; Video

Special effect in which the picture is held as a still image. It is possible to freeze either one field or a whole frame. Freezing one field provides a more stable image if the subject is moving, ...

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