Digital Pictures: Representation, Compression and Standards
2nd Edition
Published on 31. January 1995
Book
Hardback
706 pages
978-0-306-44917-8 (ISBN)
Description
The Second Edition
details the established international standards for digital imagery. Chapters discuss standards for the digitalization of bilevel images, color pictures, video conferencing, and television.
Reviews / Votes
` Well written, well illustrated, and with numerous references, this book is recommended for libraries serving academic programs in engineering and computer science. 'Choice
` Few authors can have succeeded so well in practising what they preach... Netravali and Haskell have compressed a vast amount of data into a single volume and the human task of decoding it is not unduly daunting. '
Nature
` This will no doubt be the authoritative reference on these matters for some time to come. '
Ultramicroscopy
More details
Series
Edition
2nd ed. 1995
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Springer Science+Business Media
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
706 p.
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 48 mm
Weight
1358 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-306-44917-8 (9780306449178)
Schweitzer Classification
Content
Numerical Representation of Visual Information. Common Picture Communication Systems. Redundancy-Statistics Models. Visual Psychophysics. Basic Compression Techniques. Examples of Codec Designs. Still Image Coding Standards-ISO JBIG and JPEG. CCITT H.261 (P*64) Videoconferencing Standards. Coding for Entertainment Video-ISO MPEG. High Definition Television. Postscript. Index.