Introduction to Video Coding
Part 3: Modern Video Coding Standards and Directions Beyond
About this Topic:
This webinar series introduces the principles of image and video coding, with a particular focus on the historical progression and evolution of the technologies that shape modern practice. It traces the origins of foundational components, including the DCT, zigzag scanning, dead-zone quantization, predictive coding, and contemporary entropy-coding schemes, and explains how these ideas converged into the hybrid motion-compensation and transform-based architecture used in today’s video standards.
The series also explores advanced tools that have emerged in the latest generations of codecs, such as learned transforms and in-loop and out-of-loop filters developed using machine learning techniques. In addition, it provides a comparative overview of the features and performance of leading modern standards, including HEVC, VVC, AV1, and AV2.
The material is designed for a broad engineering audience and does not assume prior expertise in image or video coding.
About the Presenter:
Yuriy Reznik received the Ph.D. in computer science from the National University of Kyiv in 2005. In 2008, he was a visiting scholar at Stanford University, where he studied advanced topics in image and video processing.
He is the Founder and CTO of Streaming Labs, Ltd., a research and technology consulting firm specializing in the design, performance analysis, and optimization of video encoders and streaming media delivery systems. He previously served as Vice President of Research at Brightcove, Inc. (2016–2025), Director of Engineering at InterDigital, Inc. (2011–2016), Staff Engineer at Qualcomm Inc. (2005–2011), and Principal Engineer at RealNetworks, Inc. (1998–2005). Since 2025, he has also been affiliated with MIT, serving as a Research Scientist and teaching course 6.7010 Digital Image Processing.
Dr. Reznik’s career has been devoted to advancing video technologies and standards. He was the principal developer of RealVideo and a contributor to the H.264/AVC, HEVC, and VVC video coding standards. He also led the development of the encoding engines behind Zencoder and Brightcove’s Context-Aware Encoding products—technologies recognized with NATAS Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards.
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