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The H.264 Advanced Video Compression Standard

Author : Iain E. Richardson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119965306
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book The H.264 Advanced Video Compression Standard written by Iain E. Richardson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-08-24 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: H.264 Advanced Video Coding or MPEG-4 Part 10 is fundamental to a growing range of markets such as high definition broadcasting, internet video sharing, mobile video and digital surveillance. This book reflects the growing importance and implementation of H.264 video technology. Offering a detailed overview of the system, it explains the syntax, tools and features of H.264 and equips readers with practical advice on how to get the most out of the standard. Packed with clear examples and illustrations to explain H.264 technology in an accessible and practical way. Covers basic video coding concepts, video formats and visual quality. Explains how to measure and optimise the performance of H.264 and how to balance bitrate, computation and video quality. Analyses recent work on scalable and multi-view versions of H.264, case studies of H.264 codecs and new technological developments such as the popular High Profile extensions. An invaluable companion for developers, broadcasters, system integrators, academics and students who want to master this burgeoning state-of-the-art technology. "[This book] unravels the mysteries behind the latest H.264 standard and delves deeper into each of the operations in the codec. The reader can implement (simulate, design, evaluate, optimize) the codec with all profiles and levels. The book ends with extensions and directions (such as SVC and MVC) for further research." Professor K. R. Rao, The University of Texas at Arlington, co-inventor of the Discrete Cosine Transform

Advanced Video Coding Systems

Author : Wen Gao
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319142437
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book Advanced Video Coding Systems written by Wen Gao and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an overview of the state of the art in video coding technology. Specifically, it introduces the tools of the AVS2 standard, describing how AVS2 can help to achieve a significant improvement in coding efficiency for future video networks and applications by incorporating smarter coding tools such as scene video coding. Features: introduces the basic concepts in video coding, and presents a short history of video coding technology and standards; reviews the coding framework, main coding tools, and syntax structure of AVS2; describes the key technologies used in the AVS2 standard, including prediction coding, transform coding, entropy coding, and loop-filters; examines efficient tools for scene video coding and surveillance video, and the details of a promising intelligent video coding system; discusses optimization technologies in video coding systems; provides a review of image, video, and 3D content quality assessment algorithms; surveys the hot research topics in video compression.

Standard Codecs

Author : Mohammed Ghanbari
Publisher : IET
ISBN 13 : 0852967101
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Standard Codecs written by Mohammed Ghanbari and published by IET. This book was released on 2003 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

H.264 and MPEG-4 Video Compression

Author : Iain E. Richardson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470869607
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Book Synopsis H.264 and MPEG-4 Video Compression by : Iain E. Richardson

Download or read book H.264 and MPEG-4 Video Compression written by Iain E. Richardson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2004-02-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following on from the successful MPEG-2 standard, MPEG-4 Visual is enabling a new wave of multimedia applications from Internet video streaming to mobile video conferencing. The new H.264 ‘Advanced Video Coding’ standard promises impressive compression performance and is gaining support from developers and manufacturers. The first book to cover H.264 in technical detail, this unique resource takes an application-based approach to the two standards and the coding concepts that underpin them. Presents a practical, step-by-step, guide to the MPEG-4 Visual and H.264 standards for video compression. Introduces the basic concepts of digital video and covers essential background material required for an understanding of both standards. Provides side-by-side performance comparisons of MPEG-4 Visual and H.264 and advice on how to approach and interpret them to ensure conformance. Examines the way that the standards have been shaped and developed, discussing the composition and procedures of the VCEG and MPEG standardisation groups. Focussing on compression tools and profiles for practical multimedia applications, this book ‘decodes’ the standards, enabling developers, researchers, engineers and students to rapidly get to grips with both H.264 and MPEG-4 Visual. Dr Iain Richardson leads the Image Communication Technology research group at the Robert Gordon University in Scotland and is the author of over 40 research papers and two previous books on video compression technology.

High Efficiency Video Coding and Other Emerging Standards

Author : K.R. Rao
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000794636
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Book Synopsis High Efficiency Video Coding and Other Emerging Standards by : K.R. Rao

Download or read book High Efficiency Video Coding and Other Emerging Standards written by K.R. Rao and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High Efficiency Video Coding and Other Emerging Standards provides an overview of high efficiency video coding (HEVC) and all its extensions and profiles. There are nearly 300 projects and problems included, and about 400 references related to HEVC alone. Next generation video coding (NGVC) beyond HEVC is also described. Other video coding standards such as AVS2, DAALA, THOR, VP9 (Google), DIRAC, VC1, and AV1 are addressed, and image coding standards such as JPEG, JPEG-LS, JPEG2000, JPEG XR, JPEG XS, JPEG XT and JPEG-Pleno are also listed.Understanding of these standards and their implementation is facilitated by overview papers, standards documents, reference software, software manuals, test sequences, source codes, tutorials, keynote speakers, panel discussions, reflector and ftp/web sites – all in the public domain. Access to these categories is also provided.

Video Codec Design

Author : Iain E. Richardson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780471485537
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Video Codec Design written by Iain E. Richardson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-05-22 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Codec-Algorithmen werden zur Kodierung und Dekodierung (oder Komprimierung und Dekomprimierung) von Daten wie Videofilmen benutzt, ohne daß die visuelle Qualität des dekodierten Bildes beeinträchtigt wird. Bekannt sind zum Beispiel Codecs zur Konvertierung von analoger Videosignale in komprimierte Videodateien wie MPEG. Dieses Lehrbuch vermittelt Ihnen einen Überblick über einschlägige Standards und Technologien, der Schwerpunkt liegt auf Fragen des Designs. Einleuchtende qualitative und quantitative Vergleiche von Systemalternativen werden anhand von Fallstudien vorgenommen.

High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC)

Author : Vivienne Sze
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319068954
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) written by Vivienne Sze and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-23 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides developers, engineers, researchers and students with detailed knowledge about the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard. HEVC is the successor to the widely successful H.264/AVC video compression standard, and it provides around twice as much compression as H.264/AVC for the same level of quality. The applications for HEVC will not only cover the space of the well-known current uses and capabilities of digital video – they will also include the deployment of new services and the delivery of enhanced video quality, such as ultra-high-definition television (UHDTV) and video with higher dynamic range, wider range of representable color, and greater representation precision than what is typically found today. HEVC is the next major generation of video coding design – a flexible, reliable and robust solution that will support the next decade of video applications and ease the burden of video on world-wide network traffic. This book provides a detailed explanation of the various parts of the standard, insight into how it was developed, and in-depth discussion of algorithms and architectures for its implementation.

VLSI Design for Video Coding

Author : Youn-Long Steve Lin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1441909591
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (419 download)

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Book Synopsis VLSI Design for Video Coding by : Youn-Long Steve Lin

Download or read book VLSI Design for Video Coding written by Youn-Long Steve Lin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-12-29 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High definition video requires substantial compression in order to be transmitted or stored economically. Advances in video coding standards from MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 to H.264/AVC have provided ever increasing coding efficiency, at the expense of great computational complexity which can only be delivered through massively parallel processing. This book will present VLSI architectural design and chip implementation for high definition H.264/AVC video encoding, using a state-of-the-art video application, with complete VLSI prototype, via FPGA/ASIC. It will serve as an invaluable reference for anyone interested in VLSI design and high-level (EDA) synthesis for video.

Standard Codecs

Author : Mohammed Ghanbari
Publisher : IET
ISBN 13 : 086341964X
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (634 download)

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Download or read book Standard Codecs written by Mohammed Ghanbari and published by IET. This book was released on 2011-03-04 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fully revised and substantially updated 3rd edition of the bestselling titles Video Coding: An Introduction to Standard Codecs (IEE 1999, best book of the year 2000 by IEE). 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. ITU and ISO/IEC standards are now widely accepted in the picture/video coding field. This book gives an authoritative explanation of picture and video coding algorithms, working from basic principle through to the advanced videocompression systems now being developed. One of its main objectives is to describe the reasons behind the introduction of a standard code for a specific application and its chosen parameter. This book will enable readers to appreciate the fundamentals needed to design a video codec for any given application and should prove to be a valuable resource for engineers working in this field. This book would appeal to students and professionals with an interest or working in telecommunications.

Next-Generation Video Coding and Streaming

Author : Benny Bing
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119133327
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book Next-Generation Video Coding and Streaming written by Benny Bing and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews the new High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard and advancements in adaptive streaming technologies for use in broadband networks and the Internet This book describes next-generation video coding and streaming technologies with a comparative assessment of the strengths and weaknesses. Specific emphasis is placed on the H.265/HEVC video coding standard and adaptive bit rate video streaming. In addition to evaluating the impact of different types of video content and powerful feature sets on HEVC coding efficiency, the text provides an in-depth study on the practical performance of popular adaptive streaming platforms and useful tips for streaming optimization. Readers will learn of new over-the-top (OTT) online TV advancements, the direction of the broadband telecommunications industry, and the latest developments that will help keep implementation costs down and maximize return on infrastructure investment. Reviews the emerging High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard and compares its coding performance with the MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding (AVC) and MPEG-2 standards Provides invaluable insights into the intra and inter coding efficiencies of HEVC, such as the impact of hierarchical block partitioning and new prediction modes Evaluates the performance of the Apple and Microsoft adaptive streaming platforms and presents innovative techniques related to aggregate stream bandwidth prediction, duplicate chunk Includes end-of-chapter homework problems and access to instructor slides Next-Generation Video Coding and Streaming is written for students, researchers, and industry professionals working in the field of video communications. Benny Bing has worked in academia for over 20 years. He has published over 80 research papers and 12 books, and has 6 video patents licensed to industry. He has served as a technical editor for several IEEE journals and an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished lecturer. He also received the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Technology Innovation Award for demonstrations of advanced media technologies.

Video Coding

Author : Mohammed Ghanbari
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Video Coding by : Mohammed Ghanbari

Download or read book Video Coding written by Mohammed Ghanbari and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study offers an introduction to video coding algorithms for readers in electronic engineering, media, broadcasting and transmission. The text works up from basic principles to the advanced video compression systems now being developed, including MPEG 1,2,4 and 7, JPEG, H.261 and H.263.

Advanced Video Coding for Next-Generation Multimedia Services

Author : Yo-Sung Ho
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9535109294
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (351 download)

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Book Synopsis Advanced Video Coding for Next-Generation Multimedia Services by : Yo-Sung Ho

Download or read book Advanced Video Coding for Next-Generation Multimedia Services written by Yo-Sung Ho and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2013-01-09 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to bring together recent advances and applications of video coding. All chapters can be useful for researchers, engineers, graduate and postgraduate students, experts in this area, and hopefully also for people who are generally interested in video coding. The book includes nine carefully selected chapters. The chapters deal with advanced compression techniques for multimedia applications, concerning recent video coding standards, high efficiency video coding (HEVC), multiple description coding, region of interest (ROI) coding, shape compensation, error resilient algorithms for H.264/AVC, wavelet-based coding, facial video coding, and hardware implementations. This book provides several useful ideas for your own research and helps to bridge the gap between the basic video coding techniques and practical multimedia applications. We hope this book is enjoyable to read and will further contribute to video coding.

Advanced Video Coding: Principles and Techniques

Author : K.N. Ngan
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080498736
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Advanced Video Coding: Principles and Techniques written by K.N. Ngan and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1999-08-31 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, the paradigm of video coding has shifted from that of a frame-based approach to a content-based approach, particularly with the finalization of the ISO multimedia coding standard, MPEG-4. MPEG-4 is the emerging standard for the coding of multimedia content. It defines a syntax for a set of content-based functionalities, namely, content-based interactivity, compression and universal access. However, it does not specify how the video content is to be generated. To generate the video content, video has to be segmented into video objects and tracked as they transverse across the video frames. This book addresses the difficult problem of video segmentation, and the extraction and tracking of video object planes as defined in MPEG-4. It then focuses on the specific issue of face segmentation and coding as applied to videoconferencing in order to improve the quality of videoconferencing images especially in the facial region. Modal-based coding is a content-based coding technique used to code synthetic objects that have become an important part of video content. It results in extremely low bit rates because only the parameters needed to represent the modal are transmitted. Model-based coding is included to provide background information for the synthetic object coding in MPEG-4. Lastly, MPEG-4, the first coding standard for multimedia content is described in detail. The topics covered include the coding of audio objects, the coding of natural and synthetic video objects, and error resilience. Advanced Video Coding is one of the first books on content-based coding and MPEG-4 coding standard. It serves as an excellent information source and reference for both researchers and practicing engineers.

Digital Video Concepts, Methods, and Metrics

Author : Shahriar Akramullah
Publisher : Apress
ISBN 13 : 1430267135
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Digital Video Concepts, Methods, and Metrics written by Shahriar Akramullah and published by Apress. This book was released on 2014-11-05 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital Video Concepts, Methods, and Metrics: Quality, Compression, Performance, and Power Trade-off Analysis is a concise reference for professionals in a wide range of applications and vocations. It focuses on giving the reader mastery over the concepts, methods and metrics of digital video coding, so that readers have sufficient understanding to choose and tune coding parameters for optimum results that would suit their particular needs for quality, compression, speed and power. The practical aspects are many: Uploading video to the Internet is only the beginning of a trend where a consumer controls video quality and speed by trading off various other factors. Open source and proprietary applications such as video e-mail, private party content generation, editing and archiving, and cloud asset management would give further control to the end-user. Digital video is frequently compressed and coded for easier storage and transmission. This process involves visual quality loss due to typical data compression techniques and requires use of high performance computing systems. A careful balance between the amount of compression, the visual quality loss and the coding speed is necessary to keep the total system cost down, while delivering a good user experience for various video applications. At the same time, power consumption optimizations are also essential to get the job done on inexpensive consumer platforms. Trade-offs can be made among these factors, and relevant considerations are particularly important in resource-constrained low power devices. To better understand the trade-offs this book discusses a comprehensive set of engineering principles, strategies, methods and metrics. It also exposes readers to approaches on how to differentiate and rank video coding solutions.

High Efficiency Video Coding

Author : Mathias Wien
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3662442760
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book High Efficiency Video Coding written by Mathias Wien and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-29 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The video coding standard High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) targets at improved compression performance for video resolutions of HD and beyond, providing Ultra HD video at similar compressed bit rates as for HD video encoded with the well-established video coding standard H.264/AVC. Based on known concepts, new coding structures and improved coding tools have been developed and specified in HEVC. The standard is expected to be taken up easily by established industry as well as new endeavors, answering the needs of todays connected and ever-evolving online world. This book presents the High Efficiency Video Coding standard and explains it in a clear and coherent language. It provides a comprehensive and consistently written description, all of a piece. The book targets at both, newbies to video coding as well as experts in the field. While providing sections with introductory text for the beginner, it suits as a well-arranged reference book for the expert. The book provides a comprehensive reference for the technical details of the employed coding tools; it further outlines the algorithmic advances compared to H.264/AVC. In addition to the technical aspects, the book provides insight to the general concepts of standardization, how specification text is written, and how these concepts apply to the HEVC specification.

Intelligent Image and Video Compression

Author : Fan Zhang
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0128203544
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (282 download)

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Download or read book Intelligent Image and Video Compression written by Fan Zhang and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2021-04-07 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. "David Bull and Fan Zhang have written a timely and accessible book on the topic of image and video compression. Compression of visual signals is one of the great technological achievements of modern times, and has made possible the great successes of streaming and social media and digital cinema. Their book, Intelligent Image and Video Compression covers all the salient topics ranging over visual perception, information theory, bandpass transform theory, motion estimation and prediction, lossy and lossless compression, and of course the compression standards from MPEG (ranging from H.261 through the most modern H.266, or VVC) and the open standards VP9 and AV-1. The book is replete with clear explanations and figures, including color where appropriate, making it quite accessible and valuable to the advanced student as well as the expert practitioner. The book offers an excellent glossary and as a bonus, a set of tutorial problems. Highly recommended! --Al Bovik An approach that combines algorithmic rigor with practical implementation using numerous worked examples Explains how video compression methods exploit statistical redundancies, natural correlations, and knowledge of human perception to improve performance Uses contemporary video coding standards (AVC, HEVC and VVC) as a vehicle for explaining block-based compression Provides broad coverage of important topics such as visual quality assessment and video streaming

Video coding standards

Author : K.R. Rao
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400767420
Total Pages : 515 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Video coding standards written by K.R. Rao and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-10-07 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The requirements for multimedia (especially video and audio) communications increase rapidly in the last two decades in broad areas such as television, entertainment, interactive services, telecommunications, conference, medicine, security, business, traffic, defense and banking. Video and audio coding standards play most important roles in multimedia communications. In order to meet these requirements, series of video and audio coding standards have been developed such as MPEG-2, MPEG-4, MPEG-21 for audio and video by ISO/IEC, H.26x for video and G.72x for audio by ITU-T, Video Coder 1 (VC-1) for video by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) and RealVideo (RV) 9 for video by Real Networks. AVS China is the abbreviation for Audio Video Coding Standard of China. This new standard includes four main technical areas, which are systems, video, audio and digital copyright management (DRM), and some supporting documents such as consistency verification. The second part of the standard known as AVS1-P2 (Video - Jizhun) was approved as the national standard of China in 2006, and several final drafts of the standard have been completed, including AVS1-P1 (System - Broadcast), AVS1-P2 (Video - Zengqiang), AVS1-P3 (Audio - Double track), AVS1-P3 (Audio - 5.1), AVS1-P7 (Mobile Video), AVS-S-P2 (Video) and AVS-S-P3 (Audio). AVS China provides a technical solution for many applications such as digital broadcasting (SDTV and HDTV), high-density storage media, Internet streaming media, and will be used in the domestic IPTV, satellite and possibly the cable TV market. Comparing with other coding standards such as H.264 AVC, the advantages of AVS video standard include similar performance, lower complexity, lower implementation cost and licensing fees. This standard has attracted great deal of attention from industries related to television, multimedia communications and even chip manufacturing from around the world. Also many well known companies have joined the AVS Group to be Full Members or Observing Members. The 163 members of AVS Group include Texas Instruments (TI) Co., Agilent Technologies Co. Ltd., Envivio Inc., NDS, Philips Research East Asia, Aisino Corporation, LG, Alcatel Shanghai Bell Co. Ltd., Nokia (China) Investment (NCIC) Co. Ltd., Sony (China) Ltd., and Toshiba (China) Co. Ltd. as well as some high level universities in China. Thus there is a pressing need from the instructors, students, and engineers for a book dealing with the topic of AVS China and its performance comparisons with similar standards such as H.264, VC-1 and RV-9.