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This book discusses the growth of digital television technology and the revolution in image and video compression, highlighting the need for standardisation in processing static and moving images and their exchange between computer systems.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Chapter 1: History of video coding
- Chapter 2: Video basics
- Chapter 3: Principles of video compression
- Chapter 4: Subband and wavelet
- Chapter 5: Coding of still pictures (JPEG and JPEG2000)
- Chapter 6: Coding for videoconferencing (H.261)
- Chapter 7: Coding of moving pictures for digital storage media (MPEG-1)
- Chapter 8: Coding of high-quality moving pictures (MPEG-2)
- Chapter 9: Video coding for low bit rate communications (H.263)
- Chapter 10: Content-based video coding (MPEG-4 visual)
- Chapter 11: Advanced video coding (H.264)
- Chapter 12: Content description, search and delivery (MPEG-7 and MPEG-21)
- Appendices
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Mohammed Ghanbari is Professor of Video Networking at the University of Essex, UK. He is best known for pioneering work on two-layered video coding for ATM networks, now known as SNR scalability in standard video codecs. Prior to his academic career, Professor Ghanbari worked for 10 years in broadcasting. He has published more than 550 technical papers, registered for 11 patents and authored/co-authored five books on video networking, many of which have had a fundamental influence in this field. He has been Associate Editor to
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, is on the advisory board of
Journal of Image Communication and has been guest editor of numerous special issues on video coding. He is a Fellow of both IEEE and IET, as well as a Chartered Engineer.
