Compression for Multimedia - Hardcover

Bocharova, Irina

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521114322 ISBN 13: 9780521114325

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Providing a thorough theoretical understanding of lossy compression techniques for image, video, speech, and audio compression, this book also covers the key features of each system, as well as practical applications, implementation issues, and design trade-offs. It presents comparisons of multimedia standards in terms of achieving known theoretical limits, whilst common and distinguishing features of the existing standards are explained and related to the background theory. There is detailed coverage of such topics as the H.264 video coding standard, low-complexity code-based vector quantizers, and the Blahut rate-distortion algorithm. Examples based on real multimedia data are also included, plus end-of-chapter problems to test understanding, algorithms that allow the reader to represent speech and audio signals efficiently, and an appendix on the basics of lossless coding. With an excellent balance of theory and practice, this book is ideal for undergraduate and graduate students, and is also a useful reference for practitioners.

About this title

Book Description:

Provides a thorough theoretical understanding of lossy compression techniques and systems, plus key features, applications, implementation issues, and design trade-offs. It also includes detailed comparisons of multimedia standards and their common and distinguishing features, examples based on real multimedia data, end-of-chapter review problems, and the basics of lossless coding.

About the Author:

Irina Bocharova is an Associate Professor at the Saint-Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics. She has published over 50 technical papers and is the co-inventor of seven US patents in speech, video and audio coding. Her current research interests include convolutional codes, communication systems, source coding and its applications to speech, audio and image coding.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0521114322
• ISBN 13: 9780521114325
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280