Video compression

As the popularity of direct satellite broadcasting, digital terrestrial TV and digital video disk skyrockets, video compression expertise is an absolute must for every video and computer engineer. Without bogging you down in higher math, Video Compression, by industry insider Peter Symes, gives you a firm grounding in all essential compression technologies, standards and algorithms--from DCT-based compression to ATSC, JPEG, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2, DVD and more. Whether you need to optimize the performance of a TV facility's compression system, design multimedia products that are compatible with standard graphics hardware and software, or just get a handle of the future of digital video, this is the one tool to consult to master: data reduction; digital imaging systems; three-dimensional sampling; entropy coding; predictive coding; transforms; quantization; motion compensation; moving MPEG data; audio compression; suband, Wavelet and Fractal encoding; much more.