The Essential Guide to Video Processing

The most up-to-date and state-of-the art- introduction to video processing concepts, standards and applications.

Offers a comprehensive approach to video processing, giving engineers and students an introduction and coverage of key applications: wireless video, video networks, video indexing and retrieval and use of video in speech processing. This title is suitable for the professional engineers, researchers and graduate students.This comprehensive and state-of-the art approach to video processing gives engineers and students a comprehensive introduction and includes full coverage of key applications: wireless video, video networks, video indexing and retrieval and use of video in speech processing. Containing all the essential methods in video processing alongside the latest standards, it is a complete resource for the professional engineer, researcher and graduate student. Numerous conceptual and numerical examples All the latest standards are thoroughly covered: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264 and AVC Coverage of the latest techniques in video security "Like its sister volume "The Essential Guide to Image Processing," Professor Bovik’s Essential Guide to Video Processing provides a timely and comprehensive survey, with contributions from leading researchers in the area. Highly recommended for everyone with an interest in this fascinating and fast-moving field." —Prof. Bernd Girod, Stanford University, USA