Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute  
      Prof. Dr.-Ing. Heiko Schwarz
      Image and Video Coding I: Fundamentals
     
         
     



Exercises

  • [Oct 22] Exercises - Set A (pdf)

  • [Oct 29] Exercises - Set B (pdf)

  • [Nov 05] Exercises - Set C (pdf)

  • [Nov 12] Exercises - Set D (pdf)

  • [Nov 19/26] Exercises - Set E (pdf, framework, Benjamin's code, Musterlösung)

  • [Dec 3] Exercises - Set F (pdf)

  • [Dec 10] Exercises - Set G (pdf)

  • [Dec 17] Exercises - Set H (pdf)

  • [Jan 07] Exercises - Set I (pdf)

  • [Jan 14] Exercises - Set J (pdf)

  • [Jan 21] Exercises - Set K (pdf)

  • [Jan 28] Exercises - Set L (pdf)

  • [Feb 04] Exercises - Set M (pdf)

  • [Feb 11] Exercises - Set N (pdf)



  • Lecture Slides

    Introduction to Source, Image and Video Coding
    • Introduction (pdf)

    Lossless Coding
    • Introduction, Discrete Random Processes (pdf)

    • Prefix codes, Unique decodability, Entropy, Huffman algorithm (pdf)

    • Conditional codes, Block codes, V2V codes, Entropy rate, Shannon-Fano-Elias codes (pdf)

    • Iterative Shannon-Fano-Elias coding, Arithmetic coding, Summary on Lossless Coding (pdf)

    Rate-Distortion Theory
    • Introduction, Continuous Random Processes (pdf)

    • Mutual Information, Information Rate-Distortion Function, Differential Entropy (pdf)

    • Diff. Entropy Rate for Gaussians, Shannon Lower Bound, Rate-Distortion Function for MSE and Gaussians (pdf)

    Quantization
    • Introduction, Scalar Quantization: Centroid Quantizer, Lloyd Quantizer (pdf)

    • Scalar Quantization: Entropy-Constrained Lloyd Quantizer (pdf)

    • Uniform Reconstruction Quantizer; Vector Quantization (pdf)

    Transform Coding
    • Overview, Unitary and Orthogonal Block Transforms, Optimal Bit Allocation for Transform Coefficients (pdf)

    • The Karhunen–Ločve Transform (KLT), Optimality of the KLT, High-Rate Approximations for Gaussians (pdf)

    • Signal Independent Transforms, DCT-II, Transform Coding in Practice (pdf)

    Predictive Coding
    • Affine and Linear Prediction (pdf)

    • Combination of prediction and quantization (pdf)

    Preview of part II and Notes on Exam
    • Preview: Image and Video Coding II: Algorithms and Applications (pdf)

    • Notes on Exam (pdf)



    Raw image files in PPM format



    Literatur
    • T. M. Cover and J. A. Thomas: Elements of Information Theory,
      John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2006.

    • A. Gersho and R. M. Gray: Vector Quantization and Signal Compression,
      Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, Dordrecht, London, 1992.

    • N. S. Jayant and P. Noll: Digital Coding of Waveforms,
      Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1994.

    • Thomas Wiegand and Heiko Schwarz:
      Source Coding: Part I of Fundamentals of Source and Video Coding,
      Foundations and Trends in Signal Processing, vol. 4, no. 1-2, pp. 1-222, January 2011.
      (Download as pdf)

     
     
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