Standard Codecs: Image Compression to Advanced Video Coding / Edition 2

by Mohammed Ghanbari

Overview

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. The book gives an authoritative explanation of picture and video coding algorithms, working from basic principles through to the advanced video compression systems now being developed. One of its main objectives is to describe the reasons behind the introduction of a standard codec for a specific application and its chosen parameter.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780852967102
Publisher:	The Institution of Engineering and Technology
Publication date:	06/28/2003
Series:	IEE Telecommunications Series , #44
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	428
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

• 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