Digital video and audio compression / Stephen J. Solari.
By: Solari, Stephen J
.
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BookPublisher: New York : McGraw-Hill, c1997Description: ix, 281 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0070595380.Subject(s): Digital video | Video compression | Sound -- Recording and reproducing -- Digital techniques | Coding theoryDDC classification: 621.3897 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 621.3897 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00015401 |
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Here is a fully readable introduction to the basic technologies, infrastructures, costs, and applications for digital audio and video compression. Delivering a concise account of compression's terms, techniques, and tricks in an easy-to-read style, it covers the basic principles underlying digital signal processing and compression; how human beings see and hear; how audio and video are reproduced; all of the existing and emerging compression standards; video and audio compression techniques; and compression and reproduction requirements of different applications, including videoconferencing.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Theory and practice -- Processing video for compression -- Video compression techniques: coding -- Video compression techniques: differential pulse-code modulation -- Video compression techniques: transform coding -- Video compression techniques: vector quantization -- Subband coding -- Sound and audio -- Video compression standards -- Applications of compression -- Computer applications for compression.