Effective Video Coding for Multimedia Applications 2nd Edition

This book is the research outcome of various Researchers and Professors who have contributed a might in this field. This book suits researchers doing their research in the area of video coding. The understanding of fundamentals of video coding is essential for the reader before reading this book.Information has become one of the most valuable assets in the modern era. Within the last 5-10 years, the demand for multimedia applications has increased enormously. Like many other recent developments, the materialization of image and video encoding is due to the contribution from major areas like good network access, good amount of fast processors e.t.c. Many standardization procedures were carrried out for the development of image and video coding. The advancement of computer storage technology continues at a rapid pace as a means of reducing storage requirements of an image and video as most situation warrants. 
 

Thus, the science of digital video compression/coding has emerged. This storage capacity seems to be more impressive when it is realized that the intent is to deliver very high quality video to the end user with as few visible artifacts as possible. Current methods of video compression such as Moving Pictures Experts Group (MPEG) standard provide good performance in terms of retaining video quality while reducing the storage requirements. Many books are available for video coding fundamentals.
 

The book revolves around three different challenges namely 
i) Coding strategies (coding efficiency and computational complexity), 
ii) Video compression and 
iii) Error resilience. 
The complete efficient video system depends upon source coding, proper inter and intra frame coding, emerging newer transform, quantization techniques and proper error concealment.
The book gives the solution of all the challenges and is available in different sections.The book contains 12 chapters, divided into 5 sections. The user of this book is expected to know the fundamentals of video coding, which is available in all the standard video coding books.

Contents
Preface
Part 1 Scalable Video Coding
1 Scalable Video Coding
2 Scalable Video Coding in Fading Hybrid Satellite-Terrestrial Networks
Part 2 Coding Strategy
3 Improved Intra Prediction of H.264/AVC
4 Efficient Scalable Video Coding Based on Matching Pursuits
5 Motion Estimation at the Decoder
Part 3 Video Compression and Wavelet Based Coding
6 Asymmetrical Principal Component Analysis Theory and its Applications to Facial Video Coding
7 Distributed Video Coding: Principles and Evaluation of Wavelet-Based Schemes
8 Correlation Noise Estimation in Distributed Video Coding
9 Non-Predictive Multistage Lattice Vector Quantization Video Coding
Part 4 Error Resilience in Video Coding
10 Error Resilient Video Coding using Cross-Layer Optimization Approach
11 An Adaptive Error Resilient Scheme for Packet-Switched H.264 Video Transmission
Part 5 Hardware Implementation of Video Coder
12 An FPGA Implementation of HW/SW Codesign Architecture for H.263