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algorithms), as long as their output was constrained properly to allow it to be decoded by any decoder made according to the standard. Encoders are also left free to perform any pre-processing they want to their input video, and decoders are allowed to perform any post-processing they want to their
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Whilst H.261 was preceded in 1984 by H.120 (which also underwent a revision in 1988 of some historic importance) as a digital video coding standard, H.261 was the first truly practical digital video coding standard (in terms of product support in significant quantities). In fact, all subsequent
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specification. Various parts of it were marked as "Under Study". It was later revised in 1990 to add the remaining necessary aspects, and was then revised again in 1993. The 1993 revision added an Annex D entitled "Still image transmission", which provided a backward-compatible way to send
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Design refinements introduced in later standardization efforts have resulted in significant improvements in compression capability relative to the H.261 design. This has resulted in H.261 becoming essentially obsolete, although it is still used as a backward-compatibility mode in some
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used to compensate for motion. Whilst only integer-valued motion vectors are supported in H.261, a blurring filter can be applied to the prediction signal – partially mitigating the lack of fractional-sample motion vector precision. Transform coding using an 8×8
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in 1974. Scalar quantization is then applied to round the transform coefficients to the appropriate precision determined by a step size control parameter, and the quantized transform coefficients are zig-zag scanned and entropy-coded (using a
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and spatial transform parts of the design. Indeed, blocking artifacts are probably a familiar phenomenon to almost everyone who has watched digital video. Deblocking filtering has since become an integral part of the more recent standards
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lines on which data rates are multiples of 64 kbit/s. The coding algorithm was designed to be able to operate at video bit rates between 40 kbit/s and 2 Mbit/s. The standard supports two video frame sizes:
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sampling scheme. It also has a backward-compatible trick for sending still images with 704×576 luma resolution and 352×288 chroma resolution (which was added in a later revision in 1993).
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The H.261 standard actually only specifies how to decode the video. Encoder designers were left free to design their own encoding algorithms (such as their own
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Although H.261 was first approved as a standard in 1988, the first version was missing some significant elements necessary to make it a complete
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decoded video prior to display. One effective post-processing technique that became a key element of the best H.261-based systems is called
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Study Group XV Specialists Group on Coding for Visual Telephony (which later became part of ITU-T SG16), chaired by Sakae Okubo of
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S. Okubo, "Reference model methodology – A tool for the collaborative creation of video coding standards",
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horizontally and vertically to separate the picture into four sub-pictures that were sent sequentially.
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filtering. This reduces the appearance of block-shaped artifacts caused by the block-based
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with 704×576 luma resolution and 352×288 chroma resolution by using a staggered 2:1
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H.261 (03/93): Video codec for audiovisual services at p x 64 kbit/s
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N. Ahmed, T. Natarajan and K. R. Rao, "Discrete Cosine Transform",
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H.261, which (in its first version) was ratified in November 1988.
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includes a H.261 encoder and decoder. It is supported by the free
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The inter-picture prediction reduces temporal redundancy, with
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Standard Codecs: Image Compression to Advanced Video Coding
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Video codec for audiovisual services at p x 64 kbit/s
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Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
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The basic processing unit of the design is called a
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H.261 was originally designed for transmission over
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The coding algorithm uses a hybrid of 816: 795: 784: 782: 745: 690: 2786: 714: 339:international video coding standards ( 938: 825: 801: 699: 779: 531:The following companies contributed 487:video-conferencing systems (such as 458:) to remove statistical redundancy. 47:adding citations to reliable sources 18: 252:https://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-H.261 183: 13: 2748:Comparison of audio coding formats 318:differential pulse-code modulation 14: 2825: 918: 526: 658:CIF – Common Intermediate Format 23: 889: 382: 34:needs additional citations for 2804:ITU-T H Series Recommendations 2310:ISO/IEC base media file format 864: 848:IEEE Transactions on Computers 840: 670: 553:Nippon Telegraph and Telephone 1: 663: 7: 755:Ghanbari, Mohammed (2003). 646: 515:multimedia players, and in 327:H.261 was developed by the 10: 2830: 2753:Comparison of video codecs 1263:(GB/T 33475.2,GY/T 299.1) 299: 274:Video Coding Experts Group 267:video compression standard 16:Video compression standard 2766: 2740: 2585: 2559: 2413: 2390: 2362: 2339: 2274: 2265: 2180: 2061: 2050: 1842: 1794: 1771: 1743: 1685: 1647: 1562: 1461: 1450: 1278: 1247: 1198: 1160: 1108: 991: 980: 439:discrete cosine transform 247: 237: 203: 189: 155: 147: 139: 131: 126: 850:, Jan. 1974, pp. 90-93; 495:Software implementations 415:inter-picture prediction 2577:Alliance for Open Media 790:Proceedings of the IEEE 425:, zig-zag scanning and 1497:MPEG-1 Layer III (MP3) 579:Compression Labs, Inc. 2799:ITU-T recommendations 2515:QuickTime File Format 611:Oki Electric Industry 306:video coding standard 2774:Compression software 2331:MPEG media transport 1408:Sorenson Video/Spark 584:AT&T Corporation 456:variable-length code 357:H.264/MPEG-4 Part 10 271:ITU-T Study Group 16 194:ITU-T Study Group 16 43:improve this article 2772:for techniques and 2770:Compression methods 1266:HDR Vivid(GY/T 358) 621:Mitsubishi Electric 523:decoders projects. 472:motion compensation 445:, T. 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