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Video Coding and Compression Technologies

Video Coding and Compression Technologies is a research topic within Signal Processing. Science Explorer counts 19k research works in it since 1951. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers encompasses advancements in video coding standards and techniques, including H.264/AVC, High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), Scalable Video Coding, motion estimation algorithms, depth image-based rendering for 3D-TV, and error resilience techniques. It also involves rate-distortion analysis, transform coding, and the application of video coding in various contexts such as wireless transmission and virtual reality.

  • Video Coding
  • H.264/AVC
  • High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC)
  • Scalable Video Coding
  • Motion Estimation
  • Rate-Distortion Analysis
  • Depth Image-Based Rendering
  • 3D-TV
  • Error Resilience
  • Transform Coding
Research works
19k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
1.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-14%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
50% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Video Coding and Compression Technologies

Which countries lead Video Coding and Compression Technologies research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (703 and 171 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 703 works
  2. 2 United States 171 works
  3. 3 India 135 works
  4. 4 South Korea 84 works
  5. 5 Japan 66 works
  6. 6 Germany 55 works
  7. 7 Brazil 53 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 49 works
  9. 9 France 46 works
  10. 10 Taiwan 43 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 50.0%United States: 12.1%India: 9.6%South Korea: 6.0%6 others listed: 22.2%50%largest
China703 · 50.0%United States171 · 12.1%India135 · 9.6%South Korea84 · 6.0%6 others listed313 · 22.2%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Video Coding and Compression Technologies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Peking University publishes the most Video Coding and Compression Technologies research, followed by Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Peking UniversityChina 41 works
  2. 2 Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 28 works
  3. 3 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 27 works
  4. 4 University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 26 works
  5. 5 Universidade Federal de PelotasBrazil 20 works
  6. 6 Xidian UniversityChina 19 works
  7. 7 Peng Cheng LaboratoryChina 17 works
  8. 8 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 17 works
  9. 9 Tsinghua UniversityChina 16 works
  10. 10 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 15 works

Who are the leading researchers in Video Coding and Compression Technologies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Video Coding and Compression Technologies include Yann LeCun, Kai You Wang and Luc Van Gool.

  1. 1 Yann LeCun United States 256k citations
  2. 2 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  3. 3 Luc Van Gool Switzerland 177k citations
  4. 4 H. Vincent Poor United States 165k citations
  5. 5 Alan Conrad Bovik United States 150k citations
  6. 6 Philip S. Yu United States 141k citations
  7. 7 Léon Bottou United States 128k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Video Coding and Compression Technologies?

The most cited paper in Video Coding and Compression Technologies is "Overview of the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) Standard" (Gary J. Sullivan, Jens-Rainer Ohm, Woo-Jin Han et al., 2012), with 8,309 citations. Next come "Overview of the H.264/AVC video coding standard" (8,227) and "Overview of the Scalable Video Coding Extension of the H.264/AVC Standard" (3,556).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Overview of the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) Standard Gary J. Sullivan, Jens-Rainer Ohm, Woo-Jin Han et al. · IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology 30 Sep 2012 8,309
2 Overview of the H.264/AVC video coding standard Thomas Wiegand, Gary J. Sullivan, Gisle Bjøntegaard et al. · IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology Jul 2003 8,227
3 Overview of the Scalable Video Coding Extension of the H.264/AVC Standard Heiko Schwarz, Detlev Marpe, Thomas Wiegand · IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology Sep 2007 3,556
4 Rate-constrained coder control and comparison of video coding standards Thomas Wiegand, Heiko Schwarz, Anthony Joch et al. · IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology Jul 2003 3,150
5 Scope of validity of PSNR in image/video quality assessment Quan Huynh‐Thu, M. Ghanbari · Electronics Letters 19 Jun 2008 2,946
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Where is Video Coding and Compression Technologies research done?

The largest centres of Video Coding and Compression Technologies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Shenzhen (China) and Seoul (South Korea). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Pelotas and Shenzhen.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 167 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 70 works
  3. 3 ShenzhenChina 55 works
  4. 4 SeoulSouth Korea 49 works
  5. 5 Xi'anChina 44 works
  6. 6 TokyoJapan 33 works
  7. 7 HefeiChina 32 works
  8. 8 NanjingChina 29 works
  9. 9 HangzhouChina 26 works
  10. 10 Hong KongChina 26 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. PelotasBR · 23.0 works46×
  2. ShenzhenCN · 55.0 works9.3×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Video Coding and Compression Technologies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Video Coding and Compression Technologies?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Science and Technology of China, City University of Hong Kong and Peking University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%mean 15.96%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Scienc…City University of H…Peking UniversityUniversity of Klagen…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 77.922.9%14.2×26 +29.6%
2City University of Hong KongChina 73.820.4%13.7×12 +7.3%
3Peking UniversityChina 66.516.1%13.0×41 -14.5%
4University of KlagenfurtAustria 58.015.5%121.8×13 +50.5%
5Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 56.720.4%6.1×27 -1.1%
6Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 53.88.4%28.1×28 +24.0%
7Shenzhen UniversityChina 52.114.1%9.9×11 +126.5%
8Xidian UniversityChina 51.515.8%17.1×19 +42.7%
9Sungkyunkwan UniversitySouth Korea 46.514.4%11.0×12 +39.3%
10National Yang Ming Chiao Tung UniversityTaiwan 41.711.6%16.2×10 +78.8%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Video Coding and Compression Technologies, country by country

Is Video Coding and Compression Technologies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 14% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2002.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Video Coding and Compression Technologies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0068% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Video Coding and Compression Technologies0.0073% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Video Coding and Compression Technologies over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Video Coding and Compression Technologies9.5% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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