Product Description: A fully revised and substantially updated 3rd edition of the bestselling titles Video Coding: An Introduction to Standard Codecs (IEE 1999, best book of the year 2000 by IEE). This book discusses the growth of digital television technology and the revolution in image and video compression (such as JPEG2000, broadcast TV, video phone), highlighting the need for standardisation in processing static and moving images and their exchange between computer systems...read more

Product Description: The rapid increase in computing power and communication speed, coupled with computer storage facilities availability, has led to a new age of multimedia app- cations. Multimedia is practically everywhere and all around us we can feel its presence in almost all applications ranging from online video databases, IPTV, - teractive multimedia and more recently in multimedia based social interaction...read more

Product Description: This study offers an introduction to video coding algorithms for readers in electronic engineering, media, broadcasting and transmission. The text works up from basic principles to the advanced video compression systems now being developed, including MPEG 1,2,4 and 7, JPEG, H...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)