Archive for March, 2020

Reviewing AV1 Features

Saturday, March 21st, 2020

Since we have this wonderful situation in Europe and I need to stay at home why not do something useless and comment on the features of AV1 especially since there’s a nice paper from (some of?) the original authors is here. In this post I’ll try to review it and give my comments on various details presented there.

First of all I’d like to note that the paper has 21 author for a review that can be done by a single person. I guess this was done to give academic credit to the people involved and I have no problems with that (also I should note that even if two of fourteen pages are short authors’ biographies they were probably the most interesting part of paper to me).
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