August 2023
Intermediate to advanced
496 pages
23h 47m
English
The information content within images and video may be compressed to reduce the volume of data for storage, reduce the bandwidth required to transmit data from one point to another (for example over a network), or minimise the power required by the system (both for compression and data transmission). Compression is only possible because images contain significant redundant information. There are at least four types of redundancy within images that can be exploited for compression:
A codec (coder–decoder) can be categorised ...