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Digital Compression for Multimedia: Principles & Standards

Digital Compression for Multimedia
Principles & Standards

Jerry Gibson
Toby Berger
Tom Lookabaugh
Rich Baker
David Lindbergh

ISBN: 9781558603691
Copyright 1998

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, Digital Compression for Multimedia 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... [more]

Introduction to Data Compression, 3rd Edition

Introduction to Data Compression, 3rd Edition
Khalid Sayood
ISBN: 9780126208627
Copyright 2006

Each edition of Introduction to Data Compression has widely been considered the best introduction and reference text on the art and science of data compression, and the third edition continues in this tradition. Data compression techniques and technology are ever-evolving with new applications in image, speech, text, audio, and video. The third edition includes all the cutting edge updates the reader will need during the work day and in class. This edition provides an extensive introduction to the theory underlying today’s compression techniques with detailed instruction for their applications using several examples to explain the concepts. Encompassing the entire field of data compression Introduction to Data Compression, includes lossless and lossy compression, Huffman coding, arithmetic coding, dictionary techniques, context based compression, scalar and vector quantization... [more]

Networking Courses
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Introduction to Programming (CS1) courses:

  • C# Programming — Introductory
  • Eiffel — Intro to Programming/CS1

Multimedia Systems and Applications courses:

  • Multimedia Design
  • Multimedia Systems

Networking and Telecommunications courses:

  • Networking — Intro
  • Networking — Intro for Business / Business Data Communication
  • Networking — Advanced
  • Network Design
  • Network Management
  • Network Security
  • Network Defense and Countermeasures
  • Optical Networking
  • Disaster Recovery
  • TCP/IP
  • Telecommunications
  • Wireless Communications and Networking
  • Network Architecture and Design
  • Optical Networks
  • The Illustrated Network
  • P2P Networking and Applications

Other courses:

  • Simulation and Modeling
  • Systems Analysis and Design
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