Performance comparison of leading image codecs: H.264/AVC Intra, JPEG2000, and Microsoft HD Photo

Trac D. Tran; Lijie Liu; Pankaj Topiwala

doi:10.1117/12.775472

24 September 2007 Performance comparison of leading image codecs: H.264/AVC Intra, JPEG2000, and Microsoft HD Photo

Trac D. Tran, Lijie Liu, Pankaj Topiwala

Proceedings Volume 6696, Applications of Digital Image Processing XXX; 66960B (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.775472
Event: Optical Engineering + Applications, 2007, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

This paper provides a detailed rate-distortion performance comparison between JPEG2000, Microsoft HD Photo, and H.264/AVC High Profile 4:4:4 I-frame coding for high-resolution still images and high-definition (HD) 1080p video sequences. This work is an extension to our previous comparative study published in previous SPIE conferences [1, 2]. Here we further optimize all three codecs for compression performance. Coding simulations are performed on a set of large-format color images captured from mainstream digital cameras and 1080p HD video sequences commonly used for H.264/AVC standardization work. Overall, our experimental results show that all three codecs offer very similar coding performances at the high-quality, high-resolution setting. Differences tend to be data-dependent: JPEG2000 with the wavelet technology tends to be the best performer with smooth spatial data; H.264/AVC High-Profile with advanced spatial prediction modes tends to cope best with more complex visual content; Microsoft HD Photo tends to be the most consistent across the board. For the still-image data sets, JPEG2000 offers the best R-D performance gains (around 0.2 to 1 dB in peak signal-to-noise ratio) over H.264/AVC High-Profile intra coding and Microsoft HD Photo. For the 1080p video data set, all three codecs offer very similar coding performance. As in [1, 2], neither do we consider scalability nor complexity in this study (JPEG2000 is operating in non-scalable, but optimal performance mode).

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Trac D. Tran, Lijie Liu, and Pankaj Topiwala "Performance comparison of leading image codecs: H.264/AVC Intra, JPEG2000, and Microsoft HD Photo", Proc. SPIE 6696, Applications of Digital Image Processing XXX, 66960B (24 September 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.775472

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