Communicating Pictures starts with a unique historical perspective of the role of images in communications and then builds on this to explain the applications and requirements of a modern video coding system. It draws on the author's extensive academic and professional experience of signal processing and video coding to deliver a text that is algorithmically rigorous, yet accessible, relevant to modern standards, and practical. It offers a thorough grounding in visual perception, and demonstrates how modern image and video compression methods can be designed in order to meet the rate-quality performance levels demanded by today's applications, networks and users. With this book you will learn: <ul>
<li>Practical issues when implementing a codec, such as picture boundary extension and complexity reduction, with particular emphasis on efficient algorithms for transforms, motion estimators and error resilience</li>
<li>Conflicts between conventional video compression, based on variable length coding and spatiotemporal prediction, and the requirements for error resilient transmission</li>
<li>How to assess the quality of coded images and video content, both through subjective trials and by using perceptually optimised objective metrics</li>
<li>Features, operation and performance of the state-of-the-art High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Covers the basics of video communications and includes a strong grounding in how we perceive images and video, and how we can exploit redundancy to reduce bitrate and improve rate distortion performance</li>
<li>Gives deep insight into the pitfalls associated with the transmission of real-time video over networks (wireless and fixed)</li>
<li>Uses the state-of- the-art video coding standard (H.264/AVC) as a basis for algorithm development in the context of block based compression </li>
<li>Insight into future video coding standards such as the new ISO/ITU High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) initiative, which extends and generalizes the H.264/AVC approach</li>
</ul>

Communicating Pictures: A Course in Image and Video Coding

Computers & Technology

Bull, David

Computer Science

Academic Press

In order for wireless devices to function, the signals must be coded in standard ways so that the sender and the receiver can communicate. This area of video source coding is one of the key challenges in the worldwide push to deliver full video communications over wireless devices. Video Coding for Mobile Communications reviews current progress in this field and looks at how to solve some of the most important technology issues in the months and years ahead. The vision of being able to communicate from anywhere, at any time, and with any type of information is on its way to becoming reality. This natural convergence of mobile communications and multimedia is a field that is expected to achieve unprecedented growth and commercial success. Current wireless communication devices support a number of basic multimedia services (voice, messages, basic internet access), but have coding problems that need to be solved before "real-time" mobile video communication can be achieved.Addresses the emerging field of mobile multimedia communications

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Communicating Pictures starts with a unique historical perspective of the role of images in communications and then builds on this to explain the applications and requirements of a modern video coding system. It draws on the author's extensive academic and professional experience of signal processing and video coding to deliver a text that is algorithmically rigorous, yet accessible, relevant to modern standards, and practical. It offers a thorough grounding in visual perception, and demonstrates how modern image and video compression methods can be designed in order to meet the rate-quality performance levels demanded by today's applications, networks and users. With this book you will learn: <ul>
<li>Practical issues when implementing a codec, such as picture boundary extension and complexity reduction, with particular emphasis on efficient algorithms for transforms, motion estimators and error resilience</li>
<li>Conflicts between conventional video compression, based on variable length coding and spatiotemporal prediction, and the requirements for error resilient transmission</li>
<li>How to assess the quality of coded images and video content, both through subjective trials and by using perceptually optimised objective metrics</li>
<li>Features, operation and performance of the state-of-the-art High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard</li>
</ul>

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.

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Communicating Pictures: A Course in Image and Video Coding

Video Coding for Mobile Communications: Efficiency, Complexity and Resilience (Signal Processing and its Applications)

Communicating Pictures: A Course in Image and Video Coding

Intelligent Image and Video Compression: Communicating Pictures

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