Image compression (found 344 titles)

Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images, Second Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Multimedia Information and Systems)

Of all the tasks programmers are asked to perform, storing, compressing, and retrieving information are some of the most challenging--and critical to many applications. Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images is a treasure trove of theory, practical illustration, and general discussion in this fascinating technical subject.

Ian Witten, Alistair Moffat, and Timothy Bell have updated their original work with this even more impressive second edition. This version adds recent techniques such as block-sorting, new indexing techniques, new lossless compression strategies, and many other elements to the mix. In short, this work is a comprehensive summary of text and image compression, indexing, and querying techniques. The history of relevant algorithm development is woven well with a practical discussion of challenges, pitfalls, and specific solutions.

This title is a textbook-style exposition on the topic, with its information organized very clearly into topics such as compression, indexing, and so forth. In addition to diagrams and example text transformations, the authors use "pseudo-code" to present algorithms in a language-independent manner wherever possible. They also supplement the reading with mg--their own implementation of the techniques. The mg C language source code is freely available on the Web.

Alone, this book is an impressive collection of information. Nevertheless, the authors list numerous titles for further reading in selected topics. Whether you're in the midst of application development and need solutions fast or are merely curious about how top-notch information management is done, this hardcover is an excellent investment. --Stephen W. Plain

Topics covered: Text compression models, including Huffman, LZW, and their variants; trends in information management; index creation and compression; image compression; performance issues; and overall system implementation.

Customes reviews 11

one of the best book on search engineering (2007-04-19)

It has been 8 years since it was published and I could see it is still one of the best in IR field. Without much long magic equations, it is not hard for common user to pick it up. There are mainly 2 parts in the book, the first book is compression, most of them are just principle introduction since it does not make sense for the read to invent or implement an algorithm. The second part is indexing (plus some query) which I highly recommended because it is "practical".
The authors are smart guys who could do sth, google mg for their website and mg4j for the ported java implementation.

A Comprehensive Introduction To Text Retrieval Systems (2005-07-30)

A wonderful feature of this book spans out practicality for various topics including compresion algorithms and theory, document and imaging system and information retrieval. On my personal interest, the authors highlight a vast list of not only the theory but present it in a simple common sense logic.

There are several examples that break down complex processes into simple and easy to understand logic and the pages provides a smooth flow of the structured topics. Well organised, presented and fully informative.

Truly an ideal book. This serves as a superior text for students studying document and imaging systems, processing and information and multimedia retrieval subjects. Beautiful!!!

Just on a personal note, it would be great to see some emphasis in the future editions in regards to web mining applications.

Great Book on Information Retrieval (2004-05-03)

Managing Gigabytes is the best book out there on information retrieval. If you're interested in implementing your own IR system, there's nothing available that comes close to this book. But the book is good not just because it's the only one out there: the writing is excellent, the algorithms are presented clearly and explained well, and the coverage is thorough. Additionally, the coverage of compression algorithms is the best I've found in any book. All algorithms and pseudo-code in the book are presented clearly enough such that any competent programmer should be able to implement them. If all else fails, however, the free downloadable source code for the mg system can fill in any gaps.

All in all, this is the best computer science book I've purchased in years. I wish all CS books were written like this one: it doesn't skimp on the theory or on the implementation details.

The Wonderful Thing Is: It's the Only One (2001-12-20)

This is the only book there is that will actually teach you how to build an information retrieval system (aka search engine). It discusses all the algorithms and tradeoffs, and comes with free downloadable source code to experiment with. Some of the material is standard, but covered in more implementation detail here than anywhere else. Some of the material is novel: you won't find better coverage of compression unless you hand-assemble twenty research papers, and reverse-engineer them to figure out how they're implemented. But with "Managing Gigabytes", it's all here. (Although, after a particularly envigorating discussion of how to string together a bunch of techniques to compress their corpus and save a couple 100MB, I did a check and found you could buy 512MB of RAM for less than the cost of the book. Knowledge is Power, but sometimes a little cash is more powerful.) The only negative is that this book is not called "Managing Terabytes", as the first edition promised/threatened it might be. RAM and disk are cheap, but not that cheap, and for now terabytes (and sometimes petabytes) are managed only by NASA, Google, and a few others. I can't wait to see the third edition!

Very clear, but misses some key real-world issues (2001-08-14)

As others have said, MG is a good introductory text for Information Retrieval. However I think it spends a little too much time on compression techniques and lacks a good discussion of incremental or on-line indexing. The book tends to assume that the set of texts to be searched is static - if new documents can be added or old ones deleted it makes the whole problem much harder and many of MG's techniques are no longer relevant. That said, I strongly look forward to Managing Terabytes (if it ever appears).

Sparse and Redundant Representations: From Theory to Applications in Signal and Image Processing

This textbook introduces sparse and redundant representations with a focus on applications in signal and image processing. The theoretical and numerical foundations are tackled before the applications are discussed. Mathematical modeling for signal sources is discussed along with how to use the proper model for tasks such as denoising, restoration, separation, interpolation and extrapolation, compression, sampling, analysis and synthesis, detection, recognition, and more. The presentation is elegant and engaging.

Sparse and Redundant Representations is intended for graduate students in applied mathematics and electrical engineering, as well as applied mathematicians, engineers, and researchers who are active in the fields of signal and image processing.

Data Compression: The Complete Reference

"A wonderful treasure chest of information; spanning a wide range of data compression methods, from simple test compression methods to the use of wavelets in image compression. It is unusual for a text on compression to cover the field so completely." – ACM Computing Reviews "Salomon’s book is the most complete and up-to-date reference on the subject. The style, rigorous yet easy to read, makes this book the preferred choice … [and] the encyclopedic nature of the text makes it an obligatory acquisition by our library." – Dr Martin Cohn, Brandeis University Data compression is one of the most important tools in modern computing, and there has been tremendous progress in all areas of the field. This fourth edition of Data Compression provides an all-inclusive, thoroughly updated, and user-friendly reference for the many different types and methods of compression (especially audio compression, an area in which many new topics covered in this revised edition appear). Among the important features of the book are a detailed and helpful taxonomy, a detailed description of the most common methods, and discussions on the use and comparative benefits of different methods. The book’s logical, clear and lively presentation is organized around the main branches of data compression. Topics and features: •highly inclusive, yet well-balanced coverage for specialists and nonspecialists •thorough coverage of wavelets methods, including SPIHT, EZW, DjVu, WSQ, and JPEG 2000 •comprehensive updates on all material from previous editions And these NEW topics: •RAR, a proprietary algorithm •FLAC, a free, lossless audio compression method •WavPack, an open, multiplatform audio-compression algorithm •LZMA, a sophisticated dictionary-based compression method •Differential compression •ALS, the audio lossless coding algorithm used in MPEG-4 •H.264, an advanced video codec, part of the huge MPEG-4 project •AC-3, Dolby's third-generation audio codec •Hyperspectral compression of 3D data sets This meticulously enhanced reference is an essential resource and companion for all computer scientists; computer, electrical and signal/image processing engineers; and scientists needing a comprehensive compilation of compression methods. It requires only a minimum of mathematics and is well-suited to nonspecialists and general readers who need to know and use this valuable content. David Salomon is a professor emeritus of computer Science at California State University, Northridge. He has authored numerous articles and books, including Coding for Data and Computer Communications, Guide to Data Compression Methods, Data Privacy and Security, Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling, Foundations of Computer Security and Transformations and Projections in Computer Graphics.

Customes reviews 5

An undiscovered gem of compression algorithm details (2006-04-07)

This book covers a needed middle ground between the more formal books on the subject such as Sayood's "Introduction To Data Compression" and easy programmer-oriented books such as Nelson's "The Data Compression Book". This book is an encyclopedia of compression methods that briefly describes the technique of each method, along with any required math, and then shows the algorithm. Code is not shown in the sense that there are no CompressionAlgorithm.cpp files included that you can lift without knowing what you are doing. However, the algorithm pseudocode is such that you should be able to translate any algorithm into code without much trouble. I know that this book has helped me. I would suggest that any true student of data compression methods use this book in conjunction with Sayood's book. Use Sayood to get the mathematical background that you need. Then use this book to read the details of a particular algorithm in plain language. This book is truly an undiscovered gem for most in the field and I highly recommend it.

Very Complete - No Useless Filler (2005-05-03)

This is by far the most all-encompassing and thorough data compression book I have ever come across. Every method covered is carefully explained in great detail leaving no doubt as to how to implement it into your various projects. This is not just some ho-hum discussion of existing software and how to copy the coding of it, as some other texts turn out to be. For once, an author did not clutter his pages of pure compression information with mountains of proprietary source code or over abundant mathematical nonsense. This book is the real deal for true data compression enthusiasts looking to follow along in real world usages and research new methods. If your sole purpose is to draw up a statistical analysis of a particular algorithm, grab your calculator and go someplace else to write your term paper. To copy someone else's source code, search the net. For those of you interested in getting in there and really tackling modern compression methodology and adapting it to whatever your needs and desires may be, this is the only book you will ever need.

Many algorithms included, but no in-depth discussion (1999-05-02)

This book explains lots of algorithms, the author tries to give you a brief overview on each of them.

However, if you're interested in the concrete ideas and proofs on how the algorithms help you to compress your data, with some mathematical works, the book isn't enough. You'll find it difficult if you want to implement the algorithms by merely reading the book.

Some idea are not clearly explained too, say, the the information on Gzip is just a summary of the GNU documentation with no in-depth discussion.

Anyway, this book is a great one judging from the (sad) fact that there are not many references on the subject.

A comprehensible but not very profound book (1998-12-13)

The book is quite comprehensible also if English is not your mother tongue.

Many algorithms are touched on, but often not profound enough to allow programers to implement the methods. Also the subtitle "The Complete Reference" is questionable: I bought the book because I was looking for facts about the Elias-Willems algorithm. In vain!

Decent overview of many algorithms (1998-10-24)

This book is more about breadth than depth. It explains the workings of pretty much every data and image compression algorithm you've ever heard of. It's not as strong on theory as Bell/Cleary/Witten's _Text Compression_, and doesn't have source code like Nelson's _The Data Compression Book_, but it does a fine job of filling in the space between.

If you're not looking for source code or lots of theory, and just want to know what all these dozens of algorithms actually *do*, this would be an appropriate book for you.

H.264 and MPEG-4 Video Compression: Video Coding for Next-generation Multimedia

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.

Customes reviews 6

A good starting point (2008-10-25)

This book feels a gap between high level tutorials that do not get into any kind of technical details and the actual specification documents that can be overwhelming at first sight.

The first part of the book is an overview of video coding and provide a technical description of important tool used in video coding such as DCT transform, motion estimation, motion compensation etc.

The second part of the book focus on the specifics of MPEG-4 and H.264.
More focus on the H.264 part would have been welcome.

Totally solid, and still the only book out there (2007-06-13)

I almost didn't get this book because some of the other reviews are pretty bad. I'm glad I got it!

This isn't a standard. So you won't find every table that's part of h.264, but you'll find enough that the standard will be accessible after you read this book. And given that the goal is conversational instead of documentary, Richardson has done a terrific job of simultaneously describing a host of relatively difficult concepts, explaining how they fit together, and explaining their places in the MPEG4 and H.264 standards.

This is probably not a first book on video compression; for that, you might try Digital Video Compression (with CD-ROM). If you get that other book, though, only read the first half. (The second half is absurdly dated and not very helpful.) I think it's reasonable to read the first half of that book, then this one, and then jump right into the standard itself (for whatever purposes you want to do that).

Pretty useless (2006-11-11)

The book does not go deep into the H.264 standard.
It seems that it was supposed to be a review of MPEG-4, with H.264 added as an afterthought.
I expected the level of the Mitchell / Pennebaker classic book on MPEG, but was disappointed.

A book which is better than many overview papers (2005-10-14)

I like the book on overview of H.264 (because it is no worse than most of overview papers, even those in IEEE by H.264 chairs).

One Chapter on H.264 Only - Don't Bother (2005-09-16)

I got this book since it is the only book on H.264 I know of.
There is a single chapter on H.264, chapter 6. The free
on-line papers from Richardson are mostly what is in that chapter.

There are plenty of H.264 overviews on the net for free
which cover the subject in greater depth which are more current.

Real World Video Compression

This is the eBook version of the printed book. If the print book includes a CD-ROM, this content is not included within the eBook version.

Customes reviews 11

Great book for a novice!!! (2010-05-27)

This is a great book for "jack of all trades, master of none." (doesn't quite makes sense, but hope you get the drift) You probably won't be able to write a master's thesis on video compression after reading this book, but you will know enough on the subject to sound like a subject matter expert. Provides great background info on the subject, concepts described and explained are easy to understand, and includes a great deal of info on commercial products available. I highly recommend this book for a novice who wants to be well versed in the subject of video compression.

Clear and thorough (2010-04-25)

This book is precisely the one I was looking for: both very precise and easy to grasp. There is theory and practice (step-by-step explanations of various softwares), and further points of view on the matter with professional compressors (what a job!).

Video Compresson (2009-09-20)

Bits and pieces of info on many different software apps but not enough of anything to be useful. The chapter on compression for the web was sorely lacking, which is why I bought the book.

Good book for fundamentals of video compression (2009-03-20)

This is a very good book, it gives an excellent explaination in video compression fundamentals.

Totally satisfied purchaser (2009-03-14)

I found this book very helpful in providing the answers to the questions I've had about compressing video for maximum quality. I would like to see more generalization on the actual application. I use Sony Vegas and DVD Architect so the tutorials in the publication we not very helpful. All in all, I found the book to be excellent and would recommend it to anyone interested in the technical aspects of video production.

JPEG: Still Image Data Compression Standard (Digital Multimedia Standards)

Created by the Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG), the JPEG standard is the first color still image data compression international standard. Crucial to the work of companies and universities throughout the world, it consists of 20 explicitly defined processes to encode or decode continuous tone still images. This new guide to JPEG and its technologies offers detailed information on the new JPEG signaling conventions and the structure of JPEG compressed data. At the same time, it provides a general review of image-coding techniques, with an emphasis on JPEG-related topics. 200 illustrations.

Customes reviews 7

A "must have" for anyone working with the details of JPEG (2006-08-27)

Created by the Joint Photographic Experts Group, the JPEG standard defines a toolkit of processes for lossy and lossless encoding and decoding of continuous-tone still images. This guide, which includes the the complete text of the ISO JPEG standards DIS 10918-1 and draft DIS 10918-2, offers detailed information on the JPEG modes of operation, signaling conventions, and structure of compressed data. It also provides a general review of image-coding techniques, so it does not assume the reader has expert status in data compression and coding techniques.

This is by far the most complete exposition of JPEG in existence. It's written by two people who know what they are talking about: both served on the ISO JPEG standards committee. If you want to know how JPEG works or why it works that way, this is the book to have. There are a number of errors that were in the first printing of this book that were all repaired in the second printing. The official specification of JPEG is not currently available on-line, and is not likely ever to be available for free because of ISO and ITU copyright restrictions, which makes it valuable to have in this book.

If you study this book in depth, you should be able to write programs that completely control the reading and writing of JPEG image files. This is different from most other books that contain scattered information on the JPEG standard and on image compression, but contain insufficient information for programmers who actually need to work with the standard on a pixel-by-pixel level. Also, considering this book was published by an "academic publisher", I was surprised at its accessible tone and numerous helpful diagrams. Note that if you are interested in JPEG2000, that this book does not contain information on that standard. The following is the table of contents:

Introduction.
Image Concepts and Vocabulary.
Aspects of the Human Visual Systems.
The Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT).
Image Compression Systems.
JPEG Modes of Operation.
JPEG Syntax and Data Organization.
Entropy Coding Concepts.
JPEG Binary Arithmetic Coding.
JPEG Coding Models.
JPEG Huffman Entropy Coding.
Arithmetic Coding Statistical.
More on Arithmetic Coding.
Probability Estimation.
Compression Performance.
JPEG Enhancements.
JPEG Applications and Vendors.
Overview of CCITT, ISO, and IEC.
History of JPEG.
Other Image Compression Standards.
Possible Future JPEG Directions.

The definitive JPEG book for programmers (2003-10-02)

This book is a "must have" for anyone interested in understanding the JPEG standard. It has two distinct parts.
The second half is the JPEG standard itself. It contains all the technical details of how JPEG works, including pseudocode flow charts, and test data to verify JPEG compliance.
The first half is the author's (less formal) understanding of the JPEG standard, where he explains the details of the standard which might be unclear to the novice.
Everything from the aspects of the human visual system, to the mathematics of Discrete Cosine Transformation, to entropy coding, to JPEG file organization is explained.
I knew nothing about image processing before studying this book. After studying this book (for a long time) I was able to write a complete application and have total control over reading and writing JPG files.

excellent! (2002-08-14)

I laughed, I cried, it was better than GIF

The number one JPEG compression book (2000-12-20)

This is a very advanced book with many technical details. A must have for everyone working in the field of image compression. For the beginner there is some text in the first part of the book, but I think that this book is primary for people working with actual implementations.

JPEG : Still Image Data Compression Standard (2000-07-05)

The only way to go! This is a well written book that is structured like a text book, but stays true to the standard. Excellent overview of FDCT theory and Entropy Coding.

Compressed Image File Formats: JPEG, PNG, GIF, XBM, BMP

Compressed Image File Formats is an appealingly compact and useful guide to some of today's most popular file formats used for image data. For any programmer who needs to know how images are stored, this concise reference can serve as a really invaluable resource.

Besides full coverage of the popular BMP, GIF, and PNG file formats, the book zeroes in on the JPEG standard, perhaps today's most popular (and most complicated) image format. In a series of short chapters, the book looks at JPEG in detail, from basic file organization (its format and marker fields), file compression techniques (like Huffman coding and DCT), and how to decode (read) and encode (write) JPEG images. By condensing hundreds of pages of specifications and documentation from the voluminous JPEG standard into this short volume, the author has created a worthwhile summary of key JPEG features and compression techniques useful to any graphics programmer.

The book also includes C++ code for a simple JPEG encoder (on the accompanying CD-ROM). This example can get you started compressing images using the JPEG format. In addition, the book discusses techniques for creating and decoding progressive JPEGs (used for downloading images in stages, in progressively finer resolutions, over the Internet).

Whether you are a programmer faced with decoding or encoding image data, or an interested Webmaster who wants to know the pros and cons of today's image file formats, Compressed Image File Formats provides a worthwhile and concise reference to what's inside image files. --Richard Dragan

Topics covered: bitmap basics, color models, Windows BMP file format, XBM file format, JPEG basics and file format, JPEG File Interchange Format (JFIF), JPEG Huffman Coding, data unit encoding, Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT), matrix operations, JPEG decoding and encoding, progressive JPEG, GIF file format and compression, and PNG file format.

Customes reviews 8

It was extremely helpful in two of my research projects (2008-10-10)

Several years ago, I received a grant to study steganography, which is the process of embedding secret messages in ordinary messages. In my case, I was working on changing the incidental bit values in image files so that they stored messages. Doing this requires a complete understanding of how the image files are stored and I used this book as my primary resource. From it, I found it easy to learn the basic bit patterns and structures used to store images and with that, I could write programs to manipulate the image files. Later, when I was teaching a course in computer security, one of the major exercises was in decrypting messages hidden in image files. My work in this area was presented at a national computer conference.
Over the last two years, I supervised a research project with a student where he used neural networks to identify image files that contained text messages. The goal was to identify junk e-mail messages (spam) that were images of text. Such image files were used to defeat filters that would flag spam messages based on the presence of keywords. When he started the project, the first thing I did was give him a copy of this book so that he could understand the structure of the image files and learn what to code for. His project was a success; he presented his work at a regional computer conference.
This book presents the structure of the primary types of image files in a manner that is easy to understand. As I have already mentioned, it was a primary resource for two successful research projects, so if you need to know the structure of image files, this is the first book that I would recommend.

Still a good book on the standards it covers (2007-03-04)

This book is about the last one written on the subject of graphics file formats, because this information can be found on the web and also because the number of image file formats and details necessary to write a meaningful book would result in a tome of mammoth size. The author of this little book did things right - he just picked five graphics file formats and covered them well. Chapter one is just a quick introduction to various aspects of graphics file formats and an introduction to terminology so you will understand why compressed image file formats work the way that they do in general.

Next the book gets into the file formats themselves by starting with one of the simplest file format to code and decode, Windows BMP. The next file format covered is the very simplest in the book - XBM. This file is also almost always used in the Windows environment. The next eight chapters and 135 pages are dedicated to explaining the JPEG format. Even the author admits that you will need to resort to outside references if you want to fully implement and understand the standard, but he gets you 90% of the way there. He restricts himself to explaining only sequential and progressive JPEG with Huffman coding and 8-bit samples. The author also does a great job of explaining the DCT, which is the basis of the JPEG format. If you haven't been able to find a good explanation of the DCT, try this book. The next chapter in the book is on GIF, and the author explains not only how to decode and encode the format, he also discusses the legal problems that have pretty much put an end to commercial GIF encoder/decoder development. The last three chapters are dedicated to the PNG file format and how to encode and decode them. Each chapter ends with a conclusion that tells you what you should have gotten out of that particular chapter and pseudocode is presented for each algorithm explained. The author expects that you already know how to program and that detailed implementation in a high level language is something you can handle. However, the author has thoughtfully included a CD with C++ source code implementing the vast majority of the algorithms described in the book. Thus if you buy a used copy make sure you get one with the CD, or you are missing much of the value of the book.

Very goof book for starters (2004-05-05)

If you know very little about the technical aspects of file formats, and you want to write your own applications, then this is the book you are looking for.

BUT, if you have limited experience in programming (visual C++ eg.) then this might not be the book for you. Don't expect full source code, it only shows you the way to do it (and adequatly at that). You really need to know the basics of data structures and dictionaries otherwise you won't go much further as reading/writing bitmaps.

Also a bit of knowledge about discrete cosine (Fourier) transforms really helps, otherwise JPEG seems like a magic formulae (and I alway want to know what I'm doing :)

But all in all this is a great book to start from, it really contains all the information you need to handle(read.write):
-BMP
-GIF
-JPG
-PNG files.
Another reviewer complained about incompleteness of the JPEG section, but this standard is so vast that a complete volume could be written about it. The book covers the JFIF file format which 99.9% of the file on the web are.

Enjoy this book! and no, I'm NOT the author!:)

Rating correction (2004-03-09)

Not helpful that the author reviews his own book and gives himself 5 stars! Before he did so, the average rating was 3.33 stars. Afterwards it became 3.75 stars. My rating aims to rectify matters. I have not, however, read the book.

Author Response (2003-06-06)

I thought I would respond to the negative comment regarding JFIF files. As the reader points out, the sample source code on the CD checks for the JFIF header. This reason for this is to be an educational excercise in file formats. As the reader points out, this causes the source code not to work with JPEG files from digital cameras that do not use the JFIF format. The difference between these formats is simply the use of APPn markers (essentially comments).

To make the book source code work with these files you simply need to comment out one line of code -- the place where it checks for the existance JFIF header.

Standard Codecs: Image Compression to Advanced Video Coding (IET Telecommunications Series)

A substantially updated edition of 'Video Coding: An Introduction to Standard Codecs'(IEE/1999) 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 standardization 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 principles through to the advanced video compression systems now being developed. One of its main objectives is to describe the reasons behind the introduction of a standard codec 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.

Also available:

Digital Signal Filtering, Analysis and Restoration - ISBN 9780852967607
Data Communications and Networks, 3rd Edition - ISBN 9780852968048

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Customes reviews 2

Good overview of Image compression and video coding standards (2009-07-30)

Even though a little outdated, this book contains a lot of information on the different standard of image compression and video coding.
The introductory chapters are a little rough and probably not too useful to the newcomer. Even though I am familiar with the topic, I had to stay focused to go through the wavelet chapter.
Past the introductory material, the book go over the different coding standard in details. The material is easy to follow and provide some good insight about the different tool and techniques adopted by the different standards.
I found it to be a good balance between too much details and enough information to really understand what is going on.

Good technical book (2008-09-30)

Good book, this guy seems to know what he's teaching, I am not through with it yet. I think this book could be a great resource for a course that requires homework, assignments etc... For my personal research I could use a little more simplified book with more examples, but is a good starting point for researching the web etc...

Digital Video Compression (with CD-ROM)

This CD-ROM with algorithms, encoders, and practice clips is your one-stop guide to the art and science of digital video compression! Without video compression, video streaming - one of the Internet's great innovations - would be nothing more than a pipe dream. That's why if digitizing video imagery is part of your work or hobby, here's an info-packed volume you need handy at all times: McGraw-Hill's "Digital Video Compression." Written by a renowned expert in digital technology, "Digital Video Compression" offers comprehensive coverage on a vast range of digital media technologies and standards. It delivers everything you need to understand the techniques, tricks, and confusing protocols of compression, as well as: fundamentals of compression; MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 compression standards; JVT / H.264 / MPEG-4 Part 10 - learn the details of the just-released compression standard; and much more!Plus, you get an invaluable CD-ROM of compression tools, encoders, and video clips for practice. With "Digital Video Compression", you're sure to stay out in front of this exploding technology! The book covers: What Is Compression? An Introduction to Images; Entropy Coding; Protective Coding; Transforms; Quantization; JPEG; Motion Compensation; MPEG-1; MPEG-2; MPEG-4; JVT / H.264 / MPEG-4 Part 10; MPEG-7 and MPEG-21; Pro-MPEG and MPEG Operating Ranges; DV Compression; Wavelets; JPEG2000; Audio Compression; and Streaming Media.

Customes reviews 8

Great in-depth review (2009-07-12)

Great in-depth review of code compression. This book should not be read like a novel as each page needs to be digested and carefully reviewed so it takes time to go through this book.

Very Comprehensive (2008-08-05)

This is probably the best overall book on video compression on Amazon. I gave it five stars because of that. The only down side is that it is now a bit dated, with the creation of newer and better MPEG4 compression schemes (like H264) since the book was written (2003). If the author came out with a 2nd edition of the book that would be great and I would buy it immediately. Still, this book gave me a very good understanding of the fundamentals of video compression and was well worth it.

Digital Layout (2007-11-24)

I do not recommend this book to novices but to those with an intermediate level of knowledge in the digital video field. It is an in-depth look into the digital video field that requires the reader to have as mentioned an intermediate level of knowledge.

Too much programmation in it (2006-07-05)

I thought this would be a book about how to compress things in different modes so you could make the final results nicer...Its too much about creating codecs which I dont wanna do at all !
I was bored at first chapter ;o(

CD-ROM has value (2005-10-13)

Only CD-ROM has value, don't like the text. Not very useful to build anything.

JPEG2000 Standard for Image Compression: Concepts, Algorithms and VLSI Architectures

Your definitive guide to state-of-the-art image compression

With excellent image quality at low bit rate, progressive transmission, scalability, region-of-interest coding, random access, error resilience, and many other salient features, the JPEG2000 standard for scalable image compression is rapidly becoming the cornerstone of today's innovative multimedia industry.

Providing comprehensive and accessible coverage of the new JPEG2000 standard, this timely and authoritative text provides a clear overview of both the theory and principles behind the algorithms, and a solid foundation of multimedia compression techniques. Written by one of JPEG2000's key developers, this crucial reference features:

• Introduction of the compression principles for different multimedia data-types
• A review of the current JPEG standard, its advantages and disadvantages
• Principles of Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) and its efficient implementation
• VLSI architectures for Discrete Wavelet Transform and case studies
• Details of the underlying core algorithms, code-stream organization, and formation of the compressed file for the JPEG2000 standard
• The VLSI implementation of JPEG2000 for hardware such as digital cameras, color faxes, printers, scanners, etc.
• A discussion of open issues not clearly defined by the standard

Numerous practical examples, illustrations, and related references, plus a discussion of open issues makes this text a must-have for electrical engineering and computer science students and practitioners alike.

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Where's my order? (2008-02-04)

I have never received this product and every day it shows USPS picked it up on the date of that day. Apparently there is no other way to report this kind of problem within the Amazon website, since my search of "Complaints" yielded no relevant content. I ordered this book back in mid-January. It was supposed to ship by Jan 23 with an expected delivery of Jan 28. Needless to say this book is effectively worthless and I question its continuing existence.

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