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An educational tool for understanding MPEG‐2 videocompression and coding techniques
Fernández-Plazaola, Unai
Gómez-Paredes, Gerardo
López-Martínez, Francisco Javier
Educación - Innovaciones tecnológicas
Codificación, Teoría de la
The understanding of the video encoding/decoding processes is a key skill for
students of computer science, engineering, or telecommunications, especially
those specialized in multimedia. The special characteristics of the video
signals, and how such features are leveraged to compress the video frames
using coding theory, are hard to understand for engineering students. In this
paper, we describe MPEG‐2 analyzer, an educational tool designed to provide
a comprehensive and interactive way to understand MPEG‐2 video compression
and encoding techniques. We have used our tool to evaluate its usefulness
in reinforcing the knowledge about the MPEG‐2 video (de)coding process to
Telecommunication Engineering students. Results show that the evaluation of
the tool is very positive, and it has helped them to understand many of the
complex concepts covered in the course.
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2023-03-23
journal article
U. Fernández-Plazaola, G. Gómez, and F. J. López-Martínez, “An Educational Tool for Understanding MPEG-2 Video Compression and Coding Techniques,” Computer Applications in Engineering Education 31, no. 5 (2023): 1219–1233.
https://hdl.handle.net/10630/41123
10.1002/cae.22636
eng
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
open access
Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional
Willey Onlin Library