JPEG-2000 Rate Control for Digital Cinema

Michael D. Smith, John Villasenor

Recent industry developments have made it clear that although digital cinema signals are image sequences, they will almost certainly be compressed using an intra-frame image compression method such as JPEG-2000 that operates on one frame at a time. This is in contrast to traditional inter-frame video standards such as MPEG that operate on multiple frames at once. Furthermore, recent research has shown that the coding efficiency advantages of inter-frame coding are significantly reduced for 4k digitized film content at the data rates and quality levels associated with digital cinema. This raises a number of important issues related to rate control methods, which have the goal of maximizing quality while also ensuring that the overall post-compression bit rate maintains average and peak values within the limits of the delivery and decoding systems.

Print ISSN
Electronic ISSN
2160-2492
Published
2006-10
Content type
Original Research
DOI
10.5594/J15132