“…Common compression artifacts such as blockiness (or block distortion), and blur (loss in the detail that occurs around edges, typically due to the quantization of transform coefficients representing higher frequencies) were also evaluated. The first test was done without any Intra-coded macro-blocks (MBs), and the second test was done with Intra-coded MBs, which are used in H.264 encoding to prevent error propagation (Shi et al, 2008). The results of the tests are presented in Figures 5, through 8, and Table 5.…”