More video with more features

In Forty years of video coding and counting I presented a short but intense history of ITU and MPEG video compression standards. In this article I will focus on how…

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Matching technology supply with demand

Introduction There have always been people in need of technology and, most of the time, people ready to provide something in response to the demand. In book XVIII of Iliad,…

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Moving intelligence around

Introduction Artificial intelligence has reached the attention of mass media and technologies supporting it – Neural Networks (NN) – are being deployed in several contexts affecting end users, e.g. in…

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Thirty years of audio coding and counting

Introduction Obviously, the electrical representation of sound information happened before the electrical representation of visual information and so did the services that used that representation to distribute sound information. The…

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Forty years of video coding and counting

Introduction For about 150 years, the telephone service has provided a socially important communication means to billions of people. For at least a century the telecom industry wanted to offer…

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Genome is digital, and can be compressed

Introduction The well-known double helix carries the DNA of living beings. The human DNA contains about 3.2 billion nucleotide base pairs represented by the quaternary symbols (A, G, C, T).…

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