CHAPTER 8 Basic Transform Video Coding

Barry Barnett

IBM Corporation Austin, Texas, USA

The subject of video coding is of fundamental importance to many areas in engineering and the natural and perceptual sciences. Video engineering has become a fundamentally digital discipline although analog TV transmission is still by far the mainstay around the world. Digital transmission of television signals via satellites is commonplace, and widespread High Definition Television (HDTV) terrestrial transmission began in 2000. The FCC has mandated all United States terrestrial TV transmissions to follow the digital standard by February, 2009. Video compression is an absolute requirement for the growth and success for the low or diminished bandwidth transmission ...

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