This book addresses the issue of human visual system (HVS)-based perceptual quantitative quality metrics for digitally coded image and video as well as the issue of perceptual image and video coding. Introducing basic techniques, the text presents standard and popular coding structures, gives a classification and analysis of various coding artifacts, and provides performance measures. It further discusses subjective assessment methods, quantitative quality metrics, test criteria, and procedures. There is additional coverage on HVS-based digital image and video coder designs, including new...

Data compression is one of the main contributing factors in the explosive growth in information technology. Without it, a number of consumer and commercial products, such as DVD, videophone, digital camera, MP3, video-streaming and wireless PCS, would have been virtually impossible. Transforming the data to a frequency or other domain enables even more efficient compression. By illustrating this intimate link, The Transform and Data Compression Handbook serves as a much-needed handbook for a wide range of researchers and engineers.
The authors describe various discrete transforms and...

This book is intended for those wishing to acquire a working knowledge of orthogonal transforms in the area of digital signal processing. The authors hope that their introduction will enhance the opportunities for interdiscipli nary work in this field. The book consists of ten chapters. The first seven chapters are devoted to the study of the background, motivation and development of orthogonal transforms, the prerequisites for which are a basic knowledge of Fourier series transform (e.g., via a course in differential equations) and matrix al gebra. The last three chapters are relatively...

Design Analysis and Implementation. Rapid development in software, hardware, mobile networks, and the potential of interactive media poses many questions for operators, manufacturers, and researchers of wireless multimedia communication systems WMCSs. This book strives to answer those questions by not only covering the underlying principles involved in the design, analysis, and implementation of WMCSs, but also by tackling advanced topics such as mobility management, wireless mesh and multimedia sensor networks, security components, and smart grids.

This fully updated and revised fifth edition of this classic reference work is current to the latest ASME BPV Code release. It is available in a convenient two-volume format that focuses on all twelve sections of the ASME Code, as well as relevant piping codes. Several chapters have new authors and are entirely new, while others have been extensively re-written for this edition.

Provides an overview of high efficiency video coding (HEVC) and all its extensions and profiles. There are nearly 300 projects and problems included, and about 400 references related to HEVC alone. Next generation video coding (NGVC) beyond HEVC is also described.

This far-reaching resource covers a full spectrum of multi-faceted considerations critical for energy generation decision makers considering the adoption or expansion of wind power facilities.