Digital Video Processing for Engineers: A Foundation for Embedded Systems Design

Any device or system with imaging functionality requires a digital video processing solution as part of its embedded system design. Engineers need a practical guide to technology basics and design fundamentals that enables them to deliver the video component of complex projects.

This book introduces core video processing concepts and standards, and delivers practical how-to guidance for engineers embarking on digital video processing designs using FPGAs. It covers the basic topics of video processing in a pictorial, intuitive manner with minimal use of mathematics. Key outcomes and benefits of this book for users include: understanding the concepts and challenges of modern video systems; architect video systems at a system level; reference design examples to implement your own high definition video processing chain; understand implementation trade-offs in video system designs.

Video processing is a must-have skill for engineers working on products and solutions for rapidly growing markets such as video surveillance, video conferencing, medical imaging, military imaging, digital broadcast equipment, displays and countless consumer electronics applicationsThis book is for engineers who need to develop video systems in their designs but who do not have video processing experience. It introduces the fundamental video processing concepts and skills in enough detail to get the job done, supported by reference designs, step-by-step FPGA- examples, core standards and systems architecture mapsWritten by lead engineers at Altera Corp, a top-three global developer of digital video chip (FPGA) technology

Components of a digital video signal Resolution and Formats Video Interfaces Video Processing Scaling De-interlacing Mixing (Alpha Blending) Sensor processing for image sensors Entropy and Quantization Lossy and Lossless Compression Video Compression Standards and Quality Video Modulation and Transport Video over IP Implementing HD ASICs and FPGAs Video Bottleneck Building an HD Video system Synchronization Issues Audio IP Reuse Debugging Video Systems