The H.264 Advanced Video Compression Standard
by Richardson, Iain E.Edition: 2nd
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2010-08-09
Publisher(s): Wiley
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Summary
Fully revised and updated, this book reflects the growing importance and implementation of H.264. It provides a clear overview of the H.264 system, covering the basic video coding concepts, information on video formats and qualities, as-well as the extensions published since 2003. The book discusses the current work that is being performed on a scalable version of H.264 and the new implementation areas. It gives the reader a practical view of the standard, including case studies of H.264 codecs and comparisons of the capabilities and performance of H.264 with other popular standards.
Author Biography
Iain Edward Richardson, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen
Dr Iain Richardson is currently a Reader in video communications and also a Lecturer in digital communications, computer networks and digital electronics in the School of Engineering at the Robert Gordon University. His research interests include video compression and transport and multimedia networking. Dr Richardson is an experienced author, having written the books H.264 and MPEG-4 Video Compression: Video Coding for Next-generation Multimedia (Wiley, 2003), and over 40 conference and journal papers. He has also been working on the development of video compression systems since 1993, and now is a convener for the Image Communication Technology Research Group, at the Robert Gordon University.
Table of Contents
| About the Author | |
| Preface | |
| Glossary | |
| List of Figures | |
| List of Tables | |
| Chapter 1: Introduction | |
| A change of scene | |
| Driving the change | |
| The role of standards | |
| Why H.264 Advanced Video Coding is important | |
| About this book | |
| Chapter 2: Video Formats and Quality | |
| Introduction | |
| Natural video scenes | |
| Capture | |
| Colour spaces | |
| Video Formats | |
| Quality | |
| Summary | |
| References | |
| Chapter 3: Video Coding Concepts | |
| Introduction | |
| Video CODEC | |
| Prediction model | |
| Image model | |
| Entropy coder | |
| The hybrid DPCM/DCT video CODEC model | |
| Summary | |
| References | |
| Chapter 4: What is H.264? | |
| Introduction | |
| What is H.264? | |
| How does an H.264 codec work? | |
| The H.264/AVC Standard | |
| H.264 Profiles and Levels | |
| The H.264 Syntax | |
| H.264 in practice | |
| Summary | |
| References | |
| H.264 syntax | |
| Introduction | |
| H.264 syntax | |
| Frames, fields and pictures | |
| NAL unit | |
| Parameter Sets | |
| Slice Layer | |
| Macroblock Layer | |
| Summary | |
| References | |
| Chapter 6: H.264 Prediction | |
| Introduction | |
| Macroblock Prediction | |
| Intra Prediction | |
| Inter Prediction | |
| Loop filter | |
| Summary | |
| References | |
| Chapter 7: H.264 transform and coding | |
| Introduction | |
| Transform and quantization | |
| Block scan orders | |
| Coding | |
| Summary | |
| References | |
| H.264 conformance, transport and licensing | |
| Introduction | |
| Conforming to the Standard | |
| H.264 coding tools for transport support | |
| Transport of H.264 data | |
| Supplemental Information | |
| Licensing H.264/AVC | |
| Summary | |
| References | |
| Chapter 9: H.264 performance | |
| Introduction | |
| Experimenting with H.264 | |
| Performance comparisons | |
| Rate control | |
| Mode selection | |
| Low complexity coding | |
| Summary | |
| References | |
| Chapter 10: Extensions and directions | |
| Introduction | |
| Scalable Video Coding | |
| Multiview Video Coding | |
| Configurable Video Coding | |
| Beyond H.264/AVC | |
| Summary | |
| References | |
| Index | |
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