Digital Video Processing for Engineers

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Introduction to Video Processing

Chapter Outline

2.1 Digital Video: Pixels and Resolution

2.2 Digital Video: Pixels and Bits

2.3 Digital Video: Color Spaces

2.4 Video Processing Performance

Video processing – the manipulation of video to resize, clarify or compress it – is increasingly done digitally and is rapidly becoming ubiquitous in both commercial and domestic settings.

This book looks at video in the digital form – so we will talk about pixels, color spaces, etc. We start with the assumption that video is made of pixels, that a row of pixels makes a line, and a collection of lines makes a video frame. In some chapters we will briefly discuss the older analog format but mainly in the context of displaying it on a digital display.

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