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Intelligent Image and Video Compression
Communicating Pictures
A unique, historical perspective on the role of images in communications that also explains applications and requirements of a modern video coding system
David Bull (Author), Fan Zhang (Author)
9780128203538, Elsevier Science
Paperback, published 9 April 2021
608 pages, 150 illustrations (50 in full color)
23.4 x 19 x 3.7 cm, 1.26 kg
"David Bull and Fan Zhang have written a timely and accessible book on the topic of image and video compression. Compression of visual signals is one of the great technological achievements of modern times, and has made possible the great successes of streaming and social media and digital cinema. Their book, Intelligent Image and Video Compression covers all the salient topics ranging over visual perception, information theory, bandpass transform theory, motion estimation and prediction, lossy and lossless compression, and of course the compression standards from MPEG (ranging from H.261 through the most modern H.266, or VVC) and the open standards VP9 and AV-1. The book is replete with clear explanations and figures, including color where appropriate, making it quite accessible and valuable to the advanced student as well as the expert practitioner. The book offers an excellent glossary and as a bonus, a set of tutorial problems. Highly recommended!" --Al Bovik, Director of the Laboratory for Image and Video Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
Intelligent Image and Video Compression: Communicating Pictures, Second Edition explains the requirements, analysis, design and application of a modern video coding system. It draws on the authors’ extensive academic and professional experience in this field to deliver a text that is algorithmically rigorous yet accessible, relevant to modern standards and practical. It builds on a thorough grounding in mathematical foundations and visual perception to demonstrate how modern image and video compression methods can be designed to meet the rate-quality performance levels demanded by today's applications and users, in the context of prevailing network constraints. "David Bull and Fan Zhang have written a timely and accessible book on the topic of image and video compression. Compression of visual signals is one of the great technological achievements of modern times, and has made possible the great successes of streaming and social media and digital cinema. Their book, Intelligent Image and Video Compression covers all the salient topics ranging over visual perception, information theory, bandpass transform theory, motion estimation and prediction, lossy and lossless compression, and of course the compression standards from MPEG (ranging from H.261 through the most modern H.266, or VVC) and the open standards VP9 and AV-1. The book is replete with clear explanations and figures, including color where appropriate, making it quite accessible and valuable to the advanced student as well as the expert practitioner. The book offers an excellent glossary and as a bonus, a set of tutorial problems. Highly recommended!? --Al Bovik
1. Introduction 2. The human visual system 3. Signal processing and information theory fundamentals 4. Digital picture formats and representations 5. Transforms for image and video coding 6. Filter banks and wavelet compression 7. Lossless compression methods 8. Coding moving pictures: Motion prediction 9. The block-based hybrid video codec 10. Measuring and managing picture quality 11. Communicating pictures: Delivery across networks 12. Video coding standards and formats 13. Communicating pictures - the future
Subject Areas: Image processing [UYT], Signal processing [UYS], Network management [UTF], Communications engineering / telecommunications [TJK]
