Video Compression Systems: From First Principles to Concatenated Codecs

by A. Bock

Overview

This book gives an overview on many practical aspects of video compression systems used in broadcast TV, IPTV, telecommunication and many other video applications. Although the book concentrates on MPEG real-time video compression systems, many aspects are equally applicable to off-line and/or non-MPEG video compression applications.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780863419638
Publisher:	The Institution of Engineering and Technology
Publication date:	07/15/2009
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Alois Bock is a senior member of technical staff at Tandberg Television, part of the Ericsson Group. As a Chartered Engineer and Member of the IET, he has over 20 years experience in the development of video compression encoders and systems. After completing his PhD in 1988, he joined the Research and Development Department of the Independent Broadcasting Authority.

Since then, Dr Bock has worked on many aspects of MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and H.264 compression encoding, including pre-processing, noise reduction, motion estimation, statistical multiplexing, splicing, rate control and real-time multi-pass encoding algorithms. Dr Bock has published over 30 technical papers and filed over 35 patents.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Digital video

3. Picture quality assessment

4. Compression principles

5. MPEG video compression standards

6. Non-MPEG compression algorithms

7. Motion estimation

8. Pre-processing

9. High-definition television (HDTV)

10. Compression for mobile devices

11. MPEG decoders and post-processing

12. Statistical multiplexing

13. Compression for contribution and distribution

14. Concatenation and transcoding

15. Bit-stream processing

16. Concluding remarks

Appendices