Communicating pictures : a course in image and video coding

✍ Scribed by David R Bull

• Publisher: Elsevier Science, Academic Press
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 533
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Communicating Pictures starts with a unique historical perspective of the role of images in communications and then builds on this to explain the applications and requirements of a modern video coding system. It draws on the authors extensive academic and professional experience of signal processing and video coding to deliver a text that is algorithmically rigorous, yet accessible, relevant to modern standards, and practical. It offers a thorough grounding in visual perception, and demonstrates how modern image and video compression methods can be designed in order to meet the rate-quality performance levels demanded by todays applications, networks and users. With this book you will learn:

• Practical issues when implementing a codec, such as picture boundary extension and complexity reduction, with particular emphasis on efficient algorithms for transforms, motion estimators and error resilience
• Conflicts between conventional video compression, based on variable length coding and spatiotemporal prediction, and the requirements for error resilient transmission
• How to assess the quality of coded images and video content, both through subjective trials and by using perceptually optimised objective metrics
• Features, operation and performance of the state-of-the-art High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard

• Covers the basics of video communications and includes a strong grounding in how we perceive images and video, and how we can exploit redundancy to reduce bitrate and improve rate distortion performance
• Gives deep insight into the pitfalls associated with the transmission of real-time video over networks (wireless and fixed)
• Uses the state-of- the-art video coding standard (H.264/AVC) as a basis for algorithm development in the context of block based compression
• Insight into future video coding standards such as the new ISO/ITU High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) initiative, which extends and generalizes the H.264/AVC approach

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Communicating Pictures, Page i
Communicating Pictures, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
About the Author, Page v
Preface, Pages xix-xxviii
List of figures, Pages xxix-xxxix
List of tables, Pages xli-xlii
List of algorithms, Page xliii
Acknowledgments, Page xlv
Chapter 1 - Introduction, Pages 1-16
Chapter 2 - The Human Visual System, Pages 17-61
Chapter 3 - Discrete-Time Analysis for Images and Video, Pages 63-98
Chapter 4 - Digital Picture Formats and Representations, Pages 99-132
Chapter 5 - Transforms for Image and Video Coding, Pages 133-169
Chapter 6 - Filter Banks and Wavelet Compression, Pages 171-211
Chapter 7 - Lossless Compression Methods, Pages 213-253
Chapter 8 - Coding Moving Pictures: Motion Prediction, Pages 255-289
Chapter 9 - The Block-Based Hybrid Video Codec, Pages 291-316
Chapter 10 - Measuring and Managing Picture Quality, Pages 317-360
Chapter 11 - Communicating Pictures: Delivery Across Networks, Pages 361-410
Chapter 12 - Video Coding Standards, Pages 411-449
Chapter 13 - Communicating Pictures—The Future, Pages 451-469
Appendix A - Glossary of Terms, Pages 471-477
Appendix B - Tutorial Problems, Pages 479-497
Index, Pages 499-513

✦ Subjects

Информатика и вычислительная техника;Обработка медиа-данных;Обработка видео;