Digital Pictures: Representation, Compression and Standards

• Numerical Representation of Visual Information. Common Picture Communication Systems. Redundancy-Statistics Models. Visual Psychophysics. Basic Compression Techniques. Examples of Codec Designs. Still Image Coding Standards-ISO JBIG and JPEG. CCITT H.261 (P*64) Videoconferencing Standards. Coding for Entertainment Video-ISO MPEG. High Definition Television. Postscript. Index.

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