Video Coding With Adaptive Vector Quantization And Rate Distortion Optimization

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Video Coding with Superimposed Motion-Compensated Signals

Author : Markus Flierl
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402077653
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Video Coding with Superimposed Motion-Compensated Signals written by Markus Flierl and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-04-18 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appendices 133 A Mathematical Results 133 A.1 Singularities of the Displacement Error Covariance Matrix 133 A.2 A Class of Matrices and their Eigenvalues 134 A.3 Inverse of the Power Spectral Density Matrix 134 A.4 Power Spectral Density of a Frame 136 Glossary 137 References 141 Index 159 Preface This book aims to capture recent advances in motion compensation for - ficient video compression. It investigates linearly combined motion comp- sated signals and generalizes the well known superposition for bidirectional prediction in B-pictures. The number of superimposed signals and the sel- tion of reference pictures will be important aspects of the discussion. The application oriented part of the book employs this concept to the well known ITU-T Recommendation H.263 and continues with the improvements by superimposed motion-compensated signals for the emerging ITU-T R- ommendation H.264 and ISO/IEC MPEG-4 (Part 10). In addition, it discusses a new approach for wavelet-based video coding. This technology is currently investigated by MPEG to develop a new video compression standard for the mid-term future.

Mathematics - Key Technology for the Future

Author : Willi Jäger
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642557538
Total Pages : 733 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Mathematics - Key Technology for the Future written by Willi Jäger and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Efficient transfer between science and society is crucial for their future development. The rapid progress of information technology and computer systems offers a large potential and new perspectives for solving complex problems. Mathematical modelling and simulation have become important tools not only in scientific investigations but also in analysing, planning and controlling technological and economic processes. Mathematics, imbedded in an interdisciplinary concept, has become a key technology. The book covers the results of a variety of major projects in industrial mathematics following an initiative of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. All projects are collaborations of industrial companies and university-based researchers, and range from automotive industry to computer technology and medical visualisation. In general, the projects presented in this volume prove that new mathematical ideas and methods can be decisive for the solution of industrial and economic problems.

DCC '99

Author : James Andrew Storer
Publisher : Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers(IEEE)
ISBN 13 : 9780769500966
Total Pages : 592 pages
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Download or read book DCC '99 written by James Andrew Storer and published by Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers(IEEE). This book was released on 1999 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprising the proceedings of the March 1999 conference, this volume contains 52 contributions arranged into nine sessions. Contributions address a wide range of topics, a selection of which includes generalized multiple description vector quantization; rate-distortion analysis of spike processes; quadtree classification and TCQ image coding; linear global detectors of redundant and rare substrings; protein incompressibility; offline dictionary-based compression; fast progressive wavelet coding; decision trees for error concealment in video decoding; and edge adaptive prediction for lossless image coding. Also includes 51 poster sessions. Lacks a subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

The Handbook of MPEG Applications

Author : Marios C. Angelides
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470974745
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book The Handbook of MPEG Applications written by Marios C. Angelides and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-11-11 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive examination of the use of MPEG-2, MPEG-4, MPEG-7, MPEG-21, and MPEG-A standards, providing a detailed reference to their application. In this book, the authors address five leading MPEG standards: MPEG-2, MPEG-4, MPEG-7, MPEG-21, and MPEG-A, focusing not only on the standards themselves, but specifically upon their application (e.g. for broadcasting media, personalised advertising and news, multimedia collaboration, digital rights management, resource adaptation, digital home systems, and so on); including MPEG cross-breed applications. In the evolving digital multimedia landscape, this book provides comprehensive coverage of the key MPEG standards used for generation and storage, distribution and dissemination, and delivery of multimedia data to various platforms within a wide variety of application domains. It considers how these MPEG standards may be used, the context of their use, and how supporting and complementary technologies and the standards interact and add value to each other. Key Features: Integrates the application of five popular MPEG standards (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, MPEG-7, MPEG-21, and MPEG-A) into one single volume, including MPEG cross-breed applications Up-to-date coverage of the field based on the latest versions of the five MPEG standards Opening chapter provides overviews of each of the five MPEG standards Contributions from leading MPEG experts worldwide Includes an accompanying website with supporting material (www.wiley.com/go/angelides_mpeg) This book provides an invaluable reference for researchers, practitioners, CTOs, design engineers, and developers. Postgraduate students taking MSc, MRes, MPhil and PhD courses in computer science and engineering, IT consultants, and system developers in the telecoms, broadcasting and publishing sectors will also find this book of interest.

Rate-Distortion Based Video Compression

Author : Guido M. Schuster
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1475725663
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Rate-Distortion Based Video Compression written by Guido M. Schuster and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most intriguing problems in video processing is the removal of the redundancy or the compression of a video signal. There are a large number of applications which depend on video compression. Data compression represents the enabling technology behind the multimedia and digital television revolution. In motion compensated lossy video compression the original video sequence is first split into three new sources of information, segmentation, motion and residual error. These three information sources are then quantized, leading to a reduced rate for their representation but also to a distorted reconstructed video sequence. After the decomposition of the original source into segmentation, mo tion and residual error information is decided, the key remaining problem is the allocation of the available bits into these three sources of information. In this monograph a theory is developed which provides a solution to this fundamental bit allocation problem. It can be applied to all quad-tree-based motion com pensated video coders which use a first order differential pulse code modulation (DPCM) scheme for the encoding of the displacement vector field (DVF) and a block-based transform scheme for the encoding of the displaced frame differ ence (DFD). An optimal motion estimator which results in the smallest DFD energy for a given bit rate for the encoding of the DVF is also a result of this theory. Such a motion estimator is used to formulate a motion compensated interpolation scheme which incorporates a global smoothness constraint for the DVF.

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.

Multimedia Image and Video Processing

Author : Ling Guan
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351833650
Total Pages : 1064 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Multimedia Image and Video Processing written by Ling Guan and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As multimedia applications have become part of contemporary daily life, numerous paradigm-shifting technologies in multimedia processing have emerged over the last decade. Substantially updated with 21 new chapters, Multimedia Image and Video Processing, Second Edition explores the most recent advances in multimedia research and applications. This edition presents a comprehensive treatment of multimedia information mining, security, systems, coding, search, hardware, and communications as well as multimodal information fusion and interaction. Clearly divided into seven parts, the book begins with a section on standards, fundamental methods, design issues, and typical architectures. It then focuses on the coding of video and multimedia content before covering multimedia search, retrieval, and management. After examining multimedia security, the book describes multimedia communications and networking and explains the architecture design and implementation for multimedia image and video processing. It concludes with a section on multimedia systems and applications. Written by some of the most prominent experts in the field, this updated edition provides readers with the latest research in multimedia processing and equips them with advanced techniques for the design of multimedia systems.

Versatile Video Coding

Author : Humberto Ochoa Dominguez
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000795055
Total Pages : 458 pages
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Download or read book Versatile Video Coding written by Humberto Ochoa Dominguez and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Video is the main driver of bandwidth use, accounting for over 80 per cent of consumer Internet traffic. Video compression is a critical component of many of the available multimedia applications, it is necessary for storage or transmission of digital video over today's band-limited networks. The majority of this video is coded using international standards developed in collaboration with ITU-T Study Group and MPEG. The MPEG family of video coding standards begun on the early 1990s with MPEG-1, developed for video and audio storage on CD-ROMs, with support for progressive video. MPEG-2 was standardized in 1995 for applications of video on DVD, standard and high definition television, with support for interlaced and progressive video. MPEG-4 part 2, also known as MPEG-2 video, was standardized in 1999 for applications of low- bit rate multimedia on mobile platforms and the Internet, with the support of object-based or content based coding by modeling the scene as background and foreground. Since MPEG-1, the main video coding standards were based on the so-called macroblocks. However, research groups continued the work beyond the traditional video coding architectures and found that macroblocks could limit the performance of the compression when using high-resolution video. Therefore, in 2013 the high efficiency video coding (HEVC) also known and H.265, was released, with a structure similar to H.264/AVC but using coding units with more flexible partitions than the traditional macroblocks. HEVC has greater flexibility in prediction modes and transform block sizes, also it has a more sophisticated interpolation and de blocking filters. In 2006 the VC-1 was released. VC-1 is a video codec implemented by Microsoft and the Microsoft Windows Media Video (VMW) 9 and standardized by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE). In 2017 the Joint Video Experts Team (JVET) released a call for proposals for a new video coding standard initially called Beyond the HEVC, Future Video Coding (FVC) or known as Versatile Video Coding (VVC). VVC is being built on top of HEVC for application on Standard Dynamic Range (SDR), High Dynamic Range (HDR) and 360° Video. The VVC is planned to be finalized by 2020. This book presents the new VVC, and updates on the HEVC. The book discusses the advances in lossless coding and covers the topic of screen content coding. Technical topics discussed include: Beyond the High Efficiency Video CodingHigh Efficiency Video Coding encoderScreen contentLossless and visually lossless coding algorithmsFast coding algorithmsVisual quality assessmentOther screen content coding algorithmsOverview of JPEG Series

Proceedings of IAC 2018 in Vienna

Author : Group of Authors
Publisher : Czech Institute of Academic Education
ISBN 13 : 8088203066
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (882 download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of IAC 2018 in Vienna written by Group of Authors and published by Czech Institute of Academic Education. This book was released on 2018-07-02 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Academic Conferences: Teaching, Learning and E-learning (IAC-TLEl 2018) and Management, Economics and Marketing (IAC-MEM 2018) and Engineering, Transport, IT and Artificial Intelligence (IAC-ETITAI 2018)

High Efficiency Video Coding and Other Emerging Standards

Author : K.R. Rao
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000794636
Total Pages : 319 pages
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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.

Electrical & Electronics Abstracts

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Total Pages : 1904 pages
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Optical and Digital Image Processing

Author : Gabriel Cristobal
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 3527635254
Total Pages : 949 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (276 download)

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Download or read book Optical and Digital Image Processing written by Gabriel Cristobal and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 949 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, Moore's law has fostered the steady growth of the field of digital image processing, though the computational complexity remains a problem for most of the digital image processing applications. In parallel, the research domain of optical image processing has matured, potentially bypassing the problems digital approaches were suffering and bringing new applications. The advancement of technology calls for applications and knowledge at the intersection of both areas but there is a clear knowledge gap between the digital signal processing and the optical processing communities. This book covers the fundamental basis of the optical and image processing techniques by integrating contributions from both optical and digital research communities to solve current application bottlenecks, and give rise to new applications and solutions. Besides focusing on joint research, it also aims at disseminating the knowledge existing in both domains. Applications covered include image restoration, medical imaging, surveillance, holography, etc... "a very good book that deserves to be on the bookshelf of a serious student or scientist working in these areas." Source: Optics and Photonics News

Advances in Multimedia Information Processing -- PCM 2010, Part II

Author : Guoping Qiu
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642156959
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book Advances in Multimedia Information Processing -- PCM 2010, Part II written by Guoping Qiu and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-09-03 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2010 Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM 2010) was held in Shanghai at Fudan University, during September 21–24, 2010. Since its inauguration in 2000, PCM has been held in various places around the Pacific Rim, namely Sydney (PCM 2000), Beijing (PCM 2001), Hsinchu (PCM 2002), Singapore (PCM 2003), Tokyo (PCM 2004), Jeju (PCM 2005), Zhejiang (PCM 2006), Hong Kong (PCM 2007), Tainan (PCM 2008), and Bangkok (PCM 2009). PCM is a major annual international conference organized as a forum for the dissemination of state-of-the-art technological advances and research results in the fields of theoretical, experimental, and applied multimedia analysis and processing. PCM 2010 featured a comprehensive technical program which included 75 oral and 56 poster presentations selected from 261 submissions from Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Italy, Japan, Korea, Myanmar, Norway, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, the UK, and the USA. Three distinguished researchers, Prof. Zhi-Hua Zhou from Nanjing University, Dr. Yong Rui from Microsoft, and Dr. Tie-Yan Liu from Microsoft Research Asia delivered three keynote talks to the conference. We are very grateful to the many people who helped to make this conference a s- cess. We would like to especially thank Hong Lu for local organization, Qi Zhang for handling the publication of the proceedings, and Cheng Jin for looking after the c- ference website and publicity. We thank Fei Wu for organizing the special session on large-scale multimedia search in the social network settings.

Introduction to Data Compression

Author : Khalid Sayood
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 012620862X
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Data Compression written by Khalid Sayood and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2006 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Khalid Sayood provides an extensive introduction to the theory underlying today's compression techniques with detailed instruction for their applications using several examples to explain the concepts. Encompassing the entire field of data compression Introduction to Data Compression, includes lossless and lossy compression, Huffman coding, arithmetic coding, dictionary techniques, context based compression, scalar and vector quantization. Khalid Sayood provides a working knowledge of data compression, giving the reader the tools to develop a complete and concise compression package upon completion of his book."--BOOK JACKET.

Recent Advances on Video Coding

Author : Javier Del Ser Lorente
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9533071818
Total Pages : 414 pages
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Download or read book Recent Advances on Video Coding written by Javier Del Ser Lorente and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended to attract the attention of practitioners and researchers from industry and academia interested in challenging paradigms of multimedia video coding, with an emphasis on recent technical developments, cross-disciplinary tools and implementations. Given its instructional purpose, the book also overviews recently published video coding standards such as H.264/AVC and SVC from a simulational standpoint. Novel rate control schemes and cross-disciplinary tools for the optimization of diverse aspects related to video coding are also addressed in detail, along with implementation architectures specially tailored for video processing and encoding. The book concludes by exposing new advances in semantic video coding. In summary: this book serves as a technically sounding start point for early-stage researchers and developers willing to join leading-edge research on video coding, processing and multimedia transmission.

The Digital Signal Processing Handbook

Author : VIJAY MADISETTI
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780849385728
Total Pages : 1792 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book The Digital Signal Processing Handbook written by VIJAY MADISETTI and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1997-12-29 with total page 1792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of digital signal processing (DSP) has spurred developments from basic theory of discrete-time signals and processing tools to diverse applications in telecommunications, speech and acoustics, radar, and video. This volume provides an accessible reference, offering theoretical and practical information to the audience of DSP users. This immense compilation outlines both introductory and specialized aspects of information-bearing signals in digital form, creating a resource relevant to the expanding needs of the engineering community. It also explores the use of computers and special-purpose digital hardware in extracting information or transforming signals in advantageous ways. Impacted areas presented include: Telecommunications Computer engineering Acoustics Seismic data analysis DSP software and hardware Image and video processing Remote sensing Multimedia applications Medical technology Radar and sonar applications This authoritative collaboration, written by the foremost researchers and practitioners in their fields, comprehensively presents the range of DSP: from theory to application, from algorithms to hardware.

Multimedia Communications and Video Coding

Author : H.L. Bertoni
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461304032
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (613 download)

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Download or read book Multimedia Communications and Video Coding written by H.L. Bertoni and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Symposium on Multimedia Communications and Video Coding (ISMCVC95) held October 11 - 13, 1995, at the Poly technic University in Brooklyn, New York. This Symposium was organized under the aus pices of the New York State funded Center for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications (CATT), in cooperation with the Communications Society and the Signal Processing Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). In preparing this book, we have summarized the topics presented in various sessions of the Symposium, including the keynote addresses, the Service Provider and Vendor Session, the Panel Discussion, as well as the twelve Technical Sessions. This summary is presented in the Introduction. 'Full papers submitted by the presenters are organized into eleven chapters, divided into three parts. Part I focuses on systems issues in multimedia communications. Part II concentrates on video coding algorithms. Part III discusses the interplay between video coding and network control for video delivery over various channels.