By
Jerry Gibson, Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Toby Berger
Tom Lookabaugh
Rich Baker
David Lindbergh
Description
Drawing on their experience in industry, research, and academia, this powerful author team combines their expertise to provide an accessible
guide to data compression standards and techniques and their applications. The essential ideas and motivation behind the various compression
methods are presented, and insight is provided into the evolution of the standards. Standards-compliant design alternatives are discussed,
and some noncompliant designs also are treated.
Covering the fundamental underpinnings of the most widely used compression methods,
this book is intended for engineers and computer scientists designing, manufacturing, and implementing compression systems, as well as
system integrators, technical managers, and researchers. It provides, in a single source, an overview of the current standards for speech,
audio, video, image, fax, and file compression.
* Authored by five experts from industry and academia who are heavily involved in
research, development, and standards-setting activities
* Covers the full spectrum of multimedia compression standards including those
for lossless data compression, speech coding, high-quality audio coding, still image compression, facsimile, and video compression
* Provides enough theory for you to understand the building blocks of the compression systems discussed, with appendices containing
necessary algorithmic details and mathematical foundations
