MPEG Video Compression Standard (Digital Multimedia Standards Series) (Digital Multimedia Standards Series)

✍ Scribed by Chad Fogg; Didier J. LeGall; Joan L. Mitchell; William B. Pennebaker

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 509
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book gives the professional and student one place to look for answers and guidance on MPEG. It incorporates low-level as well as sophisticated reviews of the major technical elements,and includes sufficient tutorial material that even naive users should be able to understand the answers to their MPEG questions. It contains many pictorial examples so that the benefits and limits of MPEG can be estimated from the data in the book. The full functionality of the entire MPEG standard is exclaimed. Guidance is given about the purpose behind some of the choices and implementers. Paricular emphasis is placed on the image compression of the MPEG standard.

✦ Table of Contents

Preliminaries......Page 1
Contents......Page 14
1 Introduction......Page 40
2 Overview of MPEG......Page 56
3 The Discrete Cosine Transform......Page 72
4 Aspects of Visual Perception......Page 90
5 MPEG Coding Principles......Page 120
6 Pseudocode and Flowcharts......Page 144
7 MPEG System Syntax......Page 156
8 MPEG-1 Video Syntax......Page 174
9 MPEG-2 Overview......Page 210
10 MPEG-2 Main Profile Syntax......Page 226
11 Motion Compensation......Page 276
12 Pel Reconstruction......Page 302
13 Motion Estimation......Page 322
14 Variable Quantization......Page 352
15 Rate Control in MPEG......Page 372
16 MPEG Patents......Page 396
17 MPEG Vendors and Products......Page 402
18 MPEG History......Page 422
19 Other Video Standards......Page 434
A MPEG-1 Part 2 Notes......Page 480
Bibliography......Page 484
Index......Page 496