This webinar will provide an overview of the fundamentals and trends of video coding, including the motivation for using video compression, the basic principles and ideas from acquisition of the video footage through coding and transmission to the display.

This first Series of Allegro DVT CS Webinars will specifically focus on the aspects that concern the encoding and decoding process and what differentiates them apart. The fundamental concept and the main building blocks of an encoder and decoder will be explained.

We also aim in this webinar to introduce the history of video codecs and how they have evolved to the present day. The trends in the video coding will be discussed in greater detail and we will follow on by sharing our outlook for the next generation video IPs.

• Introduction
  • Motivation for compression
  • Principles of compression
  • Video pipeline from acquisition of the video footage through coding and transmission to the display
  • …

• Video Signal Processing – Encode/Decode
  • Video coding tools (spatial/temporal coding, entropy, in-loop filters)
  • Main building blocks and differences
  • Pitfalls of video encoding (quality vs complexity vs PPA)
  • …

• Video Codecs History
  • MPEG (MEPG-1/2, H.26x), VPx, AVx, AVSx
  • Evolution of the standards (ever improvement, ever increasing complexity)
  • Licensing models: royalty-free vs patent pools
  • …

• Trends in the video coding
  • Codecs landscape (AV1 vs. HEVC, VVC, LCEVC, EVC)
  • Emerging Chinese codecs: AVS3 (AVS2)
  • Emerging use cases: cloud gaming, HPC (High Performance Computing), transcoding (AI use case for inferencing)
  • …

Morning Session (from 9:00 AM to 9:30 AM TSB): Register!

Afternoon Session (from 5:00 PM to 5:30 PM BST): Register!

The webinar will be broadcast live at 9am GMT (4pm China Standard Time (CST)) and 5pm GMT (9am PST).