Digital Compression for Multimedia: Principles and Standards

Drawing on their experience in industry, research, and academia, this powerful author team combines their expertise to provide an accessible guide to data compression standards and techniques and their applications. The essential ideas and motivation behind the various compression methods are presented, and insight is provided into the evolution of the standards. Standards-compliant design alternatives are discussed, and some noncompliant designs also are treated.

Covering the fundamental underpinnings of the most widely used compression methods, this book is intended for engineers and computer scientists designing, manufacturing, and implementing compression systems, as well as system integrators, technical managers, and researchers. It provides, in a single source, an overview of the current standards for speech, audio, video, image, fax, and file compression.

Authored by five experts from industry and academia who are heavily involved in research, development, and standards-setting activitiesCovers the full spectrum of multimedia compression standards including those for lossless data compression, speech coding, high-quality audio coding, still image compression, facsimile, and video compressionProvides enough theory for you to understand the building blocks of the compression systems discussed, with appendices containing necessary algorithmic details and mathematical foundations

1 Introduction to Data Compression
2 Lossless Source Coding
3 Universal Lossless Source Coding
4 Quantization
5 Predictive Coding
6 Linear Predictive Speech Coding Standards
7 Frequency Domain Coding
8 Frequency Domain Speech and Audio Coding Standards
9 JPEG Still-Image Compression Standard
10 Multimedia Conferencing Standards
11 MPEG Compression
Appendix A - Speech Quality and Intelligibility
Appendix B - Proof That Huffman Codes Minimize
Appendix C - Proof That Every UD Code Satisfies the Kraft Inequality
Appendix D - Behavior of Approximations to Entropy Rate
Appendix E - Proof of Forward March Property for LZY
Appendix F - Efficient Coding of Lk for LZ77