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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.

Intelligent Image and Video Compression: Communicating Pictures

1. Introduction 2. The human visual system 3. Signal processing and information theory fundamentals 4. Digital picture formats and representations 5. Transforms for image and video coding 6. Filter banks and wavelet compression 7. Lossless compression methods 8. Coding moving pictures: Motion prediction 9. The block-based hybrid video codec 10. Measuring and managing picture quality 11. Communicating pictures: Delivery across networks 12. Video coding standards and formats 13. Communicating pictures - the future