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Organizations and Projects: ITU Joint Video Team ftp3.itu.ch (av-arch; video sequences, JCTVC) ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29 (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11, SVN) MPEGIF H265.net VC-1 Dirac Video Compression (SourceForge Project) Open Platform Initiative for Multimedia Access (OPIMA) i3a = International Imaging Industry Association Doom9 - The Definitive DVD Backup Resource JPEG JPEGclub.org libpng.org - Home of PNG/MNG/JNG ANGIF JBIG2.com MP3' Tech MXF Implementation Site SMPTE W25.10 - MXF Implementers Working Group MXF Test CenterMailing Lists: SIGMM Mailing List MM-INTEREST RVC Reflector Subscription mpeg-newvid - MPEG AHG on New Challenges in Video Coding Standardization JCT-VC jvt-experts jvt-bitstream jvt-svc jvt-mvc vceg-experts@Yahoo Mp4-tech Mailing List mailman.videolan.org Mailing Lists (x264-devel, vlc-devel, vlc) Imageworld Mailing List
Deep Art: Deep Art Effects @ AlternativeTo (GitHub) Arbitrary Style Transfer in TensorFlow.js (GitHub) deepdream (Google) neural-style neural-style-pt neural-dream Dream-Creator Neural-Tools Picture To Painting Converters Photo Editor - Artistic Effects neuralstyle.art AI Painter Deep Dream Generator
Other Web Resources: MultimediaWiki Compression.ru project (MSU Video Codec Comparison) Image Compression Benchmark openvideocoding.org wavelet.org VideoBits.org 100fps.com (What is Deinterlacing?) BinaryEssence - Data Compression and Coding Technology Compression Links DataСompression.info Convert MXF File to Video Forum Bill Crow's HD Photo Blog The Data Compression News Blog Annotated Computer Vision Bibliography Computer Vision Information Pages (Annotated Computer Vision Bibliography - Mirror) Amazing Optical Illusions, 3D Stereograms, and Other Mind Teasing Oddities
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Test Data
Digital Videos: Consumer Digital Video Library (CDVL) Xiph.org Test Media FFmpeg Test Media Files FastVDO H.264 High Profile Video Streams Consolidated list of test video clip resources @ doom9 CIPR Sequences YUV Video Sequences @ trace.eas.asu.edu Test Images and Videos @ meru.cecs.missouri.edu Test Sequences @ ftp.ldv.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de CIF Test Sequences @ tkn.tu-berlin.de QCIF Test Sequences @ tkn.tu-berlin.de SVC Test Sequences @ tnt.uni-hannover.de 3DTV NoE - Public Software and Data Repository High Def Forum HD Video Collection LIRIS-ACCEDE (Annotated Creative Commons Emotional DatabasE)Digital Images (Research Databases): The Lenna Story I3 - Yahoo Flickr Creative Commons 100M Image Databases @ imageprocessingplace.com USC-SIPI Image Database Kodak Lossless True Color Image Suite Test Images @ Computer Vision Group, University of Granada, Spain UCID - Uncompressed Colour Image Database EPFL JPEG XR Image Compression Database Computer Vision Test Images @ CMU New Test Images @ imagecompression.info The MIRFLICKR Retrieval Evaluation @ Leiden University CVRL Color & Vision Database CalPhotos UFL-CSEA International Affective Picture System (IAPS) ImageNet LabelMe ALIPR - Automatic Photo Tagging and Visual Image Search Berkeley Segmentation Data Set 300 (BSDS300) Berkeley Segmentation Data Set and Benchmarks 500 (BSDS500) Dresden Image Database
Digital Images (General Purpose): Internet for Image Searching (by JISC Digital Media) Using Images in Teaching and Learning (by University of Reading) Openverse (The Commons, Creative Commons) Morguefile Timtim.com Open Font Library CALVisual for Construction Image Archive The Tourism Image Library John Johnson Collection: an archive of printed ephemera Oxford Art Online British Library Images Online Microsoft Office Images iStockphoto Photo.net Gallery DPChallenge all-photo.net Gallery Panoramio
Digital Audio/Music: (Live Music Archive) Girl Talk - All Day @ Illegal Art HiRes Download @ 2L Free High-Res Sampler @ HDtracks
Texts: Canterbury Corpus
Selected Research Topics
Reconfigurable Video Coding (RVC)
Visual Quality Assessment (VQA)
Digital and Multimedia Forensics
Multimedia Security
General: Coral Consortium 4C Entity DVB-CPCM DVD Forum DVD Copy Control Association Digital Transmission Content Protection Digital Content Protection, LLC Advanced Access Content System Licensing Administrator (AACS LA) Sony DADC Thomson's MediaSec Technologies CSA - known facts and speculations OpenIPMP 42 ways to distribute DeCSS Jpeg-privacy mailing listDigital Watermarking and Steganography: Digital Watermarking World Computer Forensics, Cybercrime and Steganography Resources @ data-hiding.com the information hiding homepage: digital watermarking & steganography StegoArchive BOWS-2 (Breaking Our Watermarking System 2nd Ed.) (BOWS) BOSS (Breaking Our Stegonographic System) The Watermasked Cucumbers and their watermarking blog TrueMark.cn (真印良品) Paper Watermarks Collection @ watermarks.info Piccard Watermark Collection StirMark (StirMark for Audio) CertiMark pHash Image Hashing Research @ UT-Austin (with source code)
Compressive/Compressed Sensing (or Sparse Recovery)
Web Resources: Compressive Sensing Resources @ RiceU (Compressive Imaging: A New Single-Pixel Camera) compressed-sensing.org Compressed Sensing 2.0 Community Compressive Sensing Study Group @ LinkedIn Wikimization l1-Magic SparseLabPeople: Terence Tao (Preprints in sparse recovery / compressed sensing; Compressed Sensing @ His Blog) Emmanuel Candès Justin Romberg Igor CARRON (Compressive Sensing: The Big Picture (by Igor Carron), Compressed Sensing Codes, Compressive Sensing Videos; Compressive Sensing @ Nuit Blanche - Igor Carron's Blog) David Donoho Dror Baron (Compressed Sensing Page) Joel Tropp Compressive-Sensing Workshop 2009 @ DukeU
Software and Databases
Xiph.Org Foundation Projects: Theora video compression icecast Vorbis audio compression Speex: A Free Codec For Free Speech FLAC - Free Lossless Audio Codec XSPF - XML format for sharing playlists Directshow Filters for Ogg Vorbis, Speex, Theora and FLACFreeware (Open-Source)
Digital Video: FFmpeg/libavcodec (Zeranoe FFmpeg; FFmpeg builds for Windows; Forum @ ffmpeg.arrozcru.org) MPlayer/MEncoder (MPlayer on Windows) H.264/AVC Software Coordination (JM and KTA) x264 (encoder) (x264@VideoLAN) Hdot264 video codec T264 JSVM SVC Analyzer Open SVC Decoder Nokia's MVC Software libmpeg2 Libmpeg3 Xvid DivX 3ivx TMPGEnc Net Dirac Video Codec WebM (VP8 Codec SDK) Smacker Video Technology AviSynth dvbsnoop - DVB Stream Analyzer, MPEG Analyzer Tsviatko Jongov's Projects AVS软件及测试码流 OpenAVS (decoder) AVS1-P2解码器@共创联盟 xAVS (encoder) freeMXF.org Ingex MXF Software @ opencubetech.com (XFConverter, XFReader, MXFTk® Reader) AmberFin MXF Desktop Open Media Commons (Open Media Stack) Huffyuv Lagarith Lossless Video Codec MSU Lossless Video Codec MSU Screen Capture Lossless Codec Emily PYUV: Raw video sequence player YUV Genius Tobias Oelbaum's videotools YUV 4:2:0 Viewer (Java)Digital Images: Independent JPEG Group Phil Sallee's Matlab JPEG Toolbox OpenJPEG (Github, wxPackJPG, packJPG Options - an alternative GUI) JJ2000 (Project Homepage) JasPer MJPEG Tools Independent JPEG Group's free JPEG software libpng JBIG-KIT jbig2dec jbig2enc CorePNG
Digital Audio: mpg123 - Fast console MPEG Audio Player and decoder library Audacity LAME MP3 Encoder MAD - MPEG Audio Decoder AudioCoding.com (FAAD2, FAAC) liba52 - a free ATSC A/52 stream decoder Libsndfile Secret Rabbit Code (aka libsamplerate)
Multimedia Systems (Media Players, Transcoders, Analyzers, etc.): VideoLAN - VLC media player (libdvbcsa, libdvbcsa, libdvdcss, libdvdread, libdvdplay) MPlayer/MEncoder (MPlayer on Windows) SDL - Simple DirectMedia Layer ffdshow xine Transcode ImageMagick GStreamer QccPack AcrVQWin MediaInfo GSpot Codec Information Appliance FFprobe AVIcodec BackupHDDVD@Wikipedia GPAC (Osmo4 and MP4Box) MeGUI (MeWiki) VirtualDub (VirtualDub Filters) VirtualDubMod AutoGK Avidemux AviSynth LiVES Video Editing System Cinelerra VisGenie ViTooKi vic - Video Conferencing Tool FCam Flavor (Formal Language for Audio-Visual Object Representation) BFlavor
Adobe Flash: Libming SWFTOOLS Gnash Swfdec swfmill MTASC (Motion-Twin ActionScript 2 Compiler)
Freeware (Closed-Source)
MediaCoder Alf FreeWare VideoCODECs Collection CodeCodex VcDemo - Image Compression Learning Tool (VCDemo-SIPL) DrasticPreview YUV Player Deluxe MPEG ParserCommercial Software
Media Codecs: Apple QuickTime (Developer Connection) RealNetworks (Codecs) CoreAVC HDX4 On2 Technologies Sorenson Media Kakadu JPEG 2000 SDKMedia Analyzers: Vega - Media Analyzers Tektronix's MPEG Analyzers MiraVid's MSight Mindego's MPEG Analyzer VISUALmpeg Nikon's MPEG-4AVC/H.264 Analysis Tool Nikon's MMPEG-4 Analysis Tool TSReader Elecard StreamEye Tools StreamGuru's MPEG & DVB Analyzer DVBStreamExplorer
YUV Tools: YUVTools & VIC Libraries @ Sunray Image SceneScope Nikon's Ns YUV Player-FR Nikon's Ns YUV Player DPX2YUV