Intelligent Image and Video Compression

Intelligent Image and Video Compression: Communicating Pictures, Second Edition explains the requirements, analysis, design and application of a modern video coding system. It draws on the authors'' extensive academic and professional experience in this field to deliver a text that is algorithmically rigorous yet accessible, relevant to modern standards and practical. It builds on a thorough grounding in mathematical foundations and visual perception to demonstrate how modern image and video compression methods can be designed to meet the rate-quality performance levels demanded by today''s applications and users, in the context of prevailing network constraints.

• An approach that combines algorithmic rigor with practical implementation using numerous worked examples
• Explains how video compression methods exploit statistical redundancies, natural correlations and knowledge of human perception to improve performance
• Uses contemporary video cod