Comparison between JPEG2000 and H.264 for digital cinema

Author

Shi, Boxin ; Liu, Lin ; Xu, Chao

Author_Institution

Key Lab. of Machine Perception, Peking Univ., Beijing

fYear

2008

fDate

June 23 2008-April 26 2008

Firstpage

725

Lastpage

728

Abstract

JPEG2000 and H.264 are the latest image and video coding standards respectively. Digital cinema is a new kind of application for super high definition video. The DCI (digital cinema initiative) specification published in 2005 has selected JPEG2000 instead of H.264 as the video coding standard for digital cinema. It shows that JPEG2000 has a better performance in the field of super high definition video coding. Until now, only a few basic tests have been done to compare between JPEG2000 and H.264. Moreover, the test resolutions and characteristics of input sequences are very limited. In this paper, based on JPEG2000, H.264 intra and inter-frame coding, we compare the coding efficiency and subjective image quality on multiple series of test sequences from low to super high resolutions. The experiment results demonstrate some regularity for JPEG2000 and H.264 video coding, and reveal JPEG2000 is more suitable for digital cinema.

Keywords

cinematography; high definition video; video coding; H.264 video coding standards; JPEG2000 video coding standards; digital cinema initiative specification; image quality; super high definition video coding; Bit rate; Discrete wavelet transforms; High definition video; Image coding; Image quality; Motion pictures; Standards publication; Testing; Transform coding; Video coding; Digital Cinema; H.264; JPEG2000;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia and Expo, 2008 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hannover

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2570-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2571-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICME.2008.4607537

Filename

4607537