Digital video will soon account for 50% of all bits on the consumer internet according to Cisco's Visual Networking Index. This dramatic growth from about 10% in 2005 is coupled with the world-wide introduction of efficient video compression technology, such as the video coding standard H.264/MPEG4-AVC. This talk will discuss the past development of video coding up to the present day including aspects such as scalable or 3D video coding and the forthcoming HEVC standard (H.265/MPEG-H). Ongoing and future research for video communication will be discussed.

Thomas Wiegand
Fraunhofer HHI & TU Berlin