Providing a thorough theoretical understanding of lossy compression techniques for image, video, speech, and audio compression, this book also covers the key features of each system, as well as practical applications, implementation issues, and design trade-offs. It presents comparisons of multimedia standards in terms of achieving known theoretical limits, whilst common and distinguishing features of the existing standards are explained and related to the background theory. There is detailed coverage of such topics as the H.264 video coding standard, low-complexity code-based vector quantizers, and the Blahut rate-distortion algorithm. Examples based on real multimedia data are also included, plus end-of-chapter problems to test understanding, algorithms that allow the reader to represent speech and audio signals efficiently, and an appendix on the basics of lossless coding. With an excellent balance of theory and practice, this book is ideal for undergraduate and graduate students, and is also a useful reference for practitioners.

Provides a thorough theoretical understanding of lossy compression techniques and systems, plus key features, applications, implementation issues, and design trade-offs.

About the Author
Irina Bocharova is an Associate Professor at the Saint-Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics. She has published over 50 technical papers and is the co-inventor of seven US patents in speech, video and audio coding. Her current research interests include convolutional codes, communication systems, source coding and its applications to speech, audio and image coding.


Book Information
ISBN 9780521114325
Author Irina Bocharova
Format Hardback
Page Count 280
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 700g
Dimensions(mm) 254mm * 177mm * 19mm