Image and Video Compression Standards: Algorithms and Architectures
presents an introduction to the algorithms and architectures that
underpin the image and video compression standards, including JPEG
(compression of still images), H.261 (video teleconferencing), MPEG-1
and MPEG-2 (video storage and broadcasting). In addition, the book
covers the MPEG and Dolby AC-3 audio encoding standards, as well as
emerging techniques for image and video compression, such as those based
on wavelets and vector quantization.
The book emphasizes the foundations of these standards, i.e. techniques
such as predictive coding, transform-based coding, motion compensation,
and entropy coding, as well as how they are applied in the standards.
How each standard is implemented is not dealt with, but the book does
provide all the material necessary to understand the workings of each of
the compression standards, including information that can be used to
evaluate the efficiency of various software and hardware implementations
conforming to the standards. Particular emphasis is placed on those
algorithms and architectures that have been found to be useful in
practical software or hardware implementations.
Audience: A valuable reference for the graduate student, researcher or
engineer. May also be used as a text for a course on the subject