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The volume of information required to represent a high quality Digital Video is usually very large, which becomes a challenge for Internet distribution of high volumes of content. This is basically why the data must be compressed. A well understanding about this compression process is key to develop new approaches to increase its time efficiency.

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    The Foreman sequence, available publicly, shows closeup of a talking man followed by a camera panning and view of a building being constructed, and is commonly used by ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group for video processing tests.

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Pereira, R.S., Breitman, K.K. (2011). Video Compression. In: Video Processing in the Cloud. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2137-4_3

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