The Future of Video Coding

Hsueh-Ming Hang

Abstract:

This article summarizes the panel discussion on “The Future of Video
Coding,” organized by the U.S. Local Chapter of APSIPA on April 24,
2021. This panel brought together world leading experts in video coding
to discuss and debate this hot topic. The speakers are leaders from
various video coding fields, ranging from video coding standards, visual
quality, deep learning approaches, screen content coding, reinforcement
learning, rate-control, video coding for machines, and more. The panel
discussed and debated different future issues related to video coding,
including but not limited to, the emerging areas within the next 5 years,
the trend and role of deep-based coding, the impact of visual quality