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Intra Frame Coding

The term intra frame coding refers to the fact that the various lossless and lossy compression techniques are performed relative to information that is contained only within the current frame, and not relative to any other frame in the video sequence. In other words, no temporal processing is performed outside of the current picture or frame. This mode will be described first because it is simpler, and because non-intra coding techniques are extensions to these basics. Figure 1 shows a block diagram of a basic video encoder for intra frames only. It turns out that this block diagram is very similar to that of a JPEG still image video encoder, with only slight implementation detail differences.

The potential ramifications of this similarity will be discussed later. The basic processing blocks shown are the video filter, discrete cosine transform, DCT coefficient quantizer, and run-length amplitude/variable length coder. These blocks are described individually in the sections below or have already been described in JPEG Compression.

This is a basic Intra Frame Coding Scheme is as follows:


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Dave Marshall
10/4/2001