Delta Digital Video

By Stephen Schaphorst & George Nelson In telemetry workflows, where precision and efficiency are paramount, the JPEG XS video compression standard has emerged as a groundbreaking solution for managing high-bandwidth video data. This innovative standard combines ultra-low latency, visually lossless quality, and scalability, making it a perfect fit for real-time telemetry applications. Meeting the Demands of Modern Telemetry Video telemetry requires transmitting vast amounts of high-resolution data over limited bandwidth. Traditional compression methods often introduce delays or compromise image quality, creating challenges for engineers and analysts. JPEG XS addresses these challenges by providing compression ratios of 10:1 or higher while maintaining a visually lossless image, ensuring critical details are preserved. Moreover, JPEG XS delivers ultra-low latency with encode and decode times measured in microseconds. This makes it ideal for real-time applications such as flight test instrumentation, mission-critical surveillance, and situational awareness systems, where every millisecond counts. Key Benefits of JPEG XS for Telemetry JPEG XS provides a host of advantages for telemetry workflows, including: - Reduced Bandwidth Needs: By compressing video data efficiently, JPEG XS allows high-resolution video streams to be transmitted over bandwidth-limited data links without compromising quality. - Low Latency: The standard enables near-instantaneous encoding and decoding, making it ideal for real-time video feeds and decision-making. - Seamless Scalability: JPEG XS supports a range of resolutions and frame rates, adapting to diverse telemetry needs, from UAV operations to space exploration. - Cost Efficiency: By minimizing bandwidth and storage requirements, JPEG XS helps reduce operational costs while maintaining high performance. The Path Forward JPEG XS is redefining how video is processed and transmitted in telemetry. By optimizing workflows and enabling real-time decisions, it is transforming applications across defense, aerospace, and other critical industries. Explore how Delta Digital Video is integrating JPEG XS into cutting-edge telemetry solutions by downloading the full white paper here: Download the White Paper

1. Seamless Integration: Delta’s 5480E and 5480D encoder and decoder are GbE-compliant network appliances. These units are standards-based to make it easier to integrate with standard sensors/cameras, network switches, satcom equipment, and competitive Codecs, simplifying setup and connectivity in complex systems. 2. Flexible Configuration Options: The 5480 Series products support 264, H.265, and JPEG-XS to provide system flexibility to support existing infrastructure and provide options for video quality and latency performance. 3. Robust Performance in Extreme Conditions: Designed for high performance even in harsh environments. These compact and rugged products are optimized for extended temperature operation in critical missions and high-stakes remote applications, where reliability under extreme conditions is paramount. Delta Digital Video’s 5480 Series ensures the seamless, flexible, and reliable video processing essential for high-demand applications.

Delta Information Systems is thrilled to support the flight test program at Edwards Air Force Base and Northrop Grumman Corporation in their groundbreaking efforts with the B-21 bomber. Recently, the U.S. Air Force released new images of the B-21 in flight, showcasing significant milestones in its testing phase at Edwards AFB. Since its first flight on November 10, the B-21 has completed multiple test flights, with key highlights captured on January 17 and April 4. These images, released as Congress reviews the Pentagon’s fiscal 2025 budget, underline the B-21’s advanced design features, such as its unique beak-like nose and enhanced aerodynamic performance. Andrew Hunter, the Air Force’s assistant secretary of acquisition said in testimony, “We are in the flight test program. The flight test program is proceeding well. It is doing what flight test programs are designed to do, which is helping us learn about the unique characteristics of this platform, but in a very, very effective way.” We invite you to read the full article for more details on this exciting development here. Read Andrew Hunter’s bio: https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/3154079/hon-andrew-p-hunter/

JPEG XS is an International Standard from the JPEG Committee providing visually lossless image compression employing a low-latency lightweight coding system. Three main features are key to JPEG XS: 1. Visually transparent compression: XS compressed content is visually indistinguishable from the original uncompressed content (passing ISO/IEC 29170-2 tests), and allows for best-quality 3G SDI on a GbE network. 2. Low latency: The total end-to-end latency, introduced by the XS compression-decompression cycle, is minimal. Depending on the configuration, XS typically imposes only between 1 and 32 lines of additional end-to-end latency, when compared to the same system using uncompressed video. 3. Lightweight: XS is designed to have low computational and memory complexity, allowing for efficient low-power and low-resource implementations on various platforms such as CPU, GPU, FPGA and ASIC. Relying on these key features, JPEG XS is suitable to be used in any application where uncompressed content is now the norm, yet still allowing for significant savings in the required bandwidth usage, preserving quality and supporting low latency. Delta Digital Video is excited to be introducing JPEG-XS as a new feature in our next-generation video encoder and decoder product line.