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Call for MPEG4-AVC/H.264 codecs

Second Annual H.264 video codec comparison
For people, who make real research in field of high-end video compression

MSU Graphics & Media Lab (Video Group)

See NEW VERSION on Third Annual H.264/AVC comparison page!

See CALL FOR CODECS of Fourth Annual MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 comparison!

Important Dates

  • September, 20 – deadline of codec receipt with required presets
  • September, 25 – notification of codecs acceptance for tests notification

    • Enhancements from Previous H.264/AVC Comparison

  • Measuring will be performed with extended metrics set:
  • PSNR
  • SSIM
  • VQM
  • Two codec presets will be compared:
  • “Maximum quality”
  • “Maximum speed” (was “Balanced”)
  • For each preset both speed and quality will be measured

    • Codec Requirements

  • Codec should be H.264/AVC Main Profile codec
  • Codec should allow to set arbitrary bitrate of resulted sequence
  • 3 variants of codec interface are possible:
  • Console codec version (with batch processing support — bitrate and file names must be assigned from command line
  • Video for Windows Codec with correct state saving (batch processing support)
  • Direct Show filter. In this case software for batch processing should be provided
  • Codec should open and save *.yuv or *.avi (YUV colorspace) files
  • Result video sequences should be opened with standard methods

    • Comparison Rules

  • All measurements will be produced by MSU Video Quality Measurement Tool
  • Codec options for “Maximum quality” and “Maximum speed” presets should be provided by codec authors. If these options won’t be provided, default options can be used;
  • Verification of comparison results is possible for codec authors before comparison publication
  • Codec developers can delete all or partial information about their codec from public version of comparison document.
    • See Previous H.264/AVC comparison for other rules and details.

    Useful Links

  • Previous H.264/AVC comparison
  • MPEG-4 SP/ASP comparison
  • Lossless codecs comparison

    • Contact Information

    or

    Call for codecs 2012
    See all MSU Video Codec Comparisons

    MSU video codecs comparisons resources:

    Other materials

    Video resources:

    Call for MPEG4-AVC/H.264 codecs 2012

    Public MSU video filters
    Here are available VirtualDub and AviSynth filters. For a given type of digital video filtration we typically develop a family of different algorithms and implementations. Generally there are also versions optimized for PC and hardware implementations (ASIC/FPGA/DSP). These optimized versions can be licensed to companies. Please contact us for details via video(at)graphics.cs.msu_ru.     		MSU/YUVsoft filters for companies
    We are working with Intel, Samsung, RealNetworks and other companies on adapting our filters other video processing algorithms for specific video streams, applications and hardware like TV-sets, graphics cards, etc. Some of such projects are non-exclusive. Also we have internal researches. Please let us know via video(at)graphics.cs.msu_ru if you are interested in acquiring a license for such filters or making a custom R&D project on video processing, compression, computer vision.
    Codecs comparisons
    Objective and subjective quality evaluation
    tests for video and image codecs
    Call for MPEG4-AVC/H.264 codecs 2012
    Ext. link: x264 parameters efficiency comparison
    		MSU Video Quality Measurement tools
    Programs with different objective and subjective video quality metrics implementation
    Video codecs projects
    Different research and development
    projects on video codecs     		Other
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