Adding to the Company’s portfolio of open-standards UC initiatives, the Polycom-led open standards-based implementation of SVC is designed to help drive further adoption of video across businesses and ...

Scalable video coding, or SVC, may be just the latest example of the video conferencing industry's affinity for never missing an opportunity to miss an opportunity. In this case we're talking about ...

Over the next two or three years, streaming producers will be increasingly tasked with supplying optimized video streams to devices as disparate as cell phones and set-top boxes, along with different ...

At its 70th meeting in Palma de Mallorca, Spain last month, the Motion Pictures Expert Group (MPEG) evaluated four competing technologies for the efficient coding of spatial audio. This technology has ...

The photoreceptors (cones and rods) and ganglion cells are non-uniformly distributed in the retina in the human eye. The density of cone receptors and ganglion cells play important roles in ...

Delivering high-quality video over a low quality IP network can be challenging. As described previously in this column, adding Forward Error Correction (FEC) data can ...

Video applications over the public Internet and corporate networks are gaining popularity. These, and other applications, including visual communications, are based on the transmission of video to ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Freescale Semiconductor's embedded DSP targets scalable video coding (SVC) using a customizable H.264/SVC algorithm for its StarCore DSP. The chip maker said its design enables ...

Expect to see claims of interoperability, and of the value of SVC, but look closely at what actually works in a multi-vendor environment before you build a strategy around the value of SVC. Scalable ...

HACKENSACK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vidyo, Inc., the first company to deliver personal telepresence, today announced that its co-founder and chief scientist, Dr. Alexandros Eleftheriadis, was voted ...

In this paper, the authors study real-time scalable video broadcast over wireless networks using Instantly Decodable Network Coding (IDNC). Such real-time scalable videos have hard deadline and impose ...