Image and Video Compression Standards Algorithms and Architectures, Second Edition

by Vasudev Bhaskaran, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-9952-8, 472 pp., $69.82.
Based on tutorials by the authors in several forums, introduces the underpinnings of compression for still images (JPEG), video teleconferencing (H.261 and H.263) and video storage and broadcasting (MPEG-1 and MPEG-2); and briefly describes the next generation of audiovisual coding standards such as MPEG-4 and MPEG-7. Emphasizes foundations such as predictive coding, transform-based coding, motion estimation and compensation, and entropy coding. Suitable for self-study by engineers or as a supplementary text in a graduate course, and assumes no prior knowledge of image or video compression theory or architecture, but some background in high-level hardware design.