Research Catalog

Title

Compression in video and audio / John Watkinson.

Author

Watkinson, John.

Publication

Oxford [England] ; Boston : Focal Press, 1995.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Description

xii, 176 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Alternative Title

Compression in video & audio

Subject

• Digital video
• Video compression
• Sound > Digital techniques
• Coding theory

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Ch. 1. Introduction to compression. 1.1. Why compression is necessary. 1.2. Some applications of compression. 1.3. Lossless and perceptive coding. 1.4. Compression principles. 1.5. Drawbacks of compression. 1.6. Audio compression. 1.7. Sub-band coding. 1.8. Transform coding. 1.9. Predictive coding. 1.10. Video compression. 1.11. Intra-coded compression. 1.12. Inter-coded compression. 1.13. Introduction to motion compensation. 1.14. Film-originated video compression -- Ch. 2. Fundamentals. 2.1. What is an audio signal? 2.2. What is a video signal? 2.3. Types of video. 2.4. What is a digital signal? 2.5. Introduction to conversion. 2.6. Sampling and aliasing. 2.7. Reconstruction. 2.8. Filter design. 2.9. Sampling clock jitter. 2.10. Choice of audio sampling rate. 2.11. Video sampling structures. 2.12. The phase-locked loop. 2.13. Quantizing. 2.14. Quantizing error. 2.15. Dither. 2.16. Binary codes for audio. 2.17. Binary codes for component video. 2.18. Introduction to digital processes.
• 2.19. Logic elements. 2.20. Storage elements. 2.21. Binary adding. 2.22. Gain control by multiplication -- Ch. 3. Processing for compression. 3.1. Filters. 3.2. The quadrature mirror filter. 3.3. Filtering for video noise reduction. 3.4. Transforms. 3.5. The Fourier transform. 3.6. The discrete cosine transform (DCT). 3.7. The wavelet transform. 3.8. Motion compensation. 3.9. Motion estimation techniques. 3.10. Compression and requantizing -- Ch. 4. Audio compression. 4.1. Psychoacoustics and masking. 4.2. Codec level calibration. 4.3. Quality measurement. 4.4. The limits. 4.5. Compression applications. 4.6. Audio compression techniques. 4.7. Non-uniform coding. 4.8. Floating-point coding. 4.9. Predictive coding. 4.10. Sub-band coding. 4.11. Transform coding. 4.12. A simple sub-band coder. 4.13. Data reduction formats. 4.14. ISO Layer I - simplified MUSICAM. 4.15. ISO Layer II - MUSICAM. 4.16. ISO Layer III. 4.17. apt-x 100. 4.18. Dolby AC-2. 4.19. PASC. 4.20. The ATRAC coder.
• Ch. 5. Video compression. 5.1. The eye. 5.2. Colour vision. 5.3. Colour difference signals. 5.4. Motion and resolution. 5.5. Applications of video compression. 5.6. Intra-coded compression. 5.7. JPEG compression. 5.8. Compression in Digital Betacam. 5.9. Inter-coded compression. 5.10. Error propagation. 5.11. CCIR Rec. 723 compression. 5.12. Introduction to MPEG coding. 5.13. MPEG-1 coding. 5.14. MPEG-2 coding. 5.15. Coding artifacts.

ISBN

0240513940 (pbk.)

LCCN

95008321

OCLC

• 32200782
• ocm32200782

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries