Glossary
- 4:2:0 (sampling)
Sampling method: chrominance components have half the horizontal and vertical resolution of luminance component
- 4:2:2 (sampling)
Sampling method: chrominance components have half the horizontal resolution of luminance component
- 4:4:4 (sampling)
Sampling method: chrominance components have same resolution as luminance component
- access unit
Complete coded frame or field
- arithmetic coding
Coding method to reduce redundancy
- artefact
Visual distortion in an image
- ASO
Arbitrary Slice Order, in which slices may be coded out of raster sequence
- block
Region of macroblock
- block matching
Motion estimation carried out on rectangular picture areas
- blocking
Square or rectangular distortion areas in an image
- B slice
Coded slice predicted using bidirectional motion compensation
- CABAC
Context-based Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coding
- CAVLC
Context Adaptive Variable Length Coding
- chrominance or chroma
Colour difference component
- CIF
Common Intermediate Format, a colour image format
- CODEC
COder / DECoder pair
- Coded Picture Buffer (CPB)
Buffer containing coded frames or fields
- colour space
Method of representing colour images
- DCT
Discrete Cosine Transform, a mathematical transform and/or its practical approximation(s)
- direct prediction
A coding mode in which no motion vector is transmitted
- DPCM
Differential Pulse Code Modulation
- DSCQS
Double Stimulus Continuous Quality Scale, a scale and method for subjective quality measurement
- DWT
Discrete Wavelet Transform
- entropy coding
Coding method to reduce redundancy
- error concealment ...
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