VcDemo is an ideal tool for students to explore the possibilities of compression theory on real images using algorithms that text books teach about. The package is also very suitable for on-line demonstrations in lectures. A user manual (F1-help) is available, as well as a set of exercises that can serve as home work.

The screen shot above gives an impression of the user interface. VcDemo is entirely menu-driven. No programming is necessary, but the user has control over the crucial compression parameters. Example of such parameters are bit rate, prediction structure in DPCM, the block-size in DCT compression, and the Group-of-Picture structure in MPEG.

VcDemo loads any bmp or tiff-image, but the compression modules work only on the luminance component. Image sequences (video) consist of raw YUV files or series of bmp-images. Both MPEG video and system streams can be decoded by VcDemo. The VcDemo MPEG-1 encoded sequences can be decoded by any MPEG player.

Platforms supported are Windows95/98/NT/2000/XP. VcDemo comes with an install/uninstall shield.

VcDemo is the based on image and video processing research and teaching in the Information and Communication Theory Group (ICT) of Delft University of Technology (TU-Delft), as well as public domain and non-disclosed compression software packages. (c) 2004 TU-Delft.