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Image Processing for Cinema
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Image Processing for Cinema

by Marcelo Bertalmío
February 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
321 pages
10h 26m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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Chapter 4
Compression
4.1 Introduction
If we were to use video data in a direct form, representing each pixel of each
frame as a triplet of red, green and blue values expressed with a fixed number
of bits, then the amount of data involved would be enormous in every regard:
recording, storage, transmission. For instance, recording images of 2880x1620
pixels at 30 frames per second and with 10 bits of color information per channel
would require a data rate of approximately 4 gigabits per second. This figure
is beyond the capabilities of todays’ cameras. A bandwidth of 4 Gb/s is also
exceedingly larger than current typical values for domestic DSL connections, ...
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