Table of Contents

Preface to first edition
Preface to second edition
Preface to third edition
1 History of video coding
2 Video basics
3 Principles of video compression
4 Subband and wavelet
5 Coding of still pictures (JPEG and JPEG2000)
6 Coding for videoconferencing (H.261)
7 Coding of moving pictures for digital storage media (MPEG-1)
8 Coding of high-quality moving pictures (MPEG-2)
9 Video coding for low bit rate communications (H.263)
10 Content-based video coding (MPEG-4 visual)
11 Advanced video coding (H.264)
12 Content description, search and delivery (MPEG-7 and MPEG-21)
Appendix A A ‘C’ program for the fast discrete cosine transform
Appendix B Huffman tables for the DC and AC coefficients of the JPEG baseline encoder
Appendix C Huffman tables for quad tree shape coding
Appendix D Frequency tables for the CAE encoding of binary shapes
Appendix E Channel error/packet loss model
Appendix F Solutions to the problems
Appendix G Glossary of acronyms
Index