| Hari Kalva Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL. www.cse.fau.edu/~hari hari@cse.fau.edu |
With H.264 gaining momentum, there has been increasing interest in transcoding MPEG-2, MPEG-4, WMV, H.263, and H.264 video to the H.264 format. The transcoding techniques will vary depending on the target applications and requirements. Key to these transcoding techniques is the balance between the computational complexity and transcoded video quality. Use of meta data streams to speedup transcoding is another alternative. Video transcoding has applications in a number of applications where codec diversity is common: consumer electronics, video broadcast/multicast, mobile telephony, video messaging, video mail, etc. This special session will bring together researchers working on transcoding video to/from the H.264 video coding format.