The MPEG Handbook

• Main Author: Watkinson, John
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Taylor & Francis Group 2004
• Edition: 2
• Subjects: Video compression
• ISBN: 9780240805788; 024080578X

Table of Contents:

• Cover -- The MPEG Handbook: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction to compression -- 1.1 What is MPEG? -- 1.2 Why compression is necessary -- 1.3 MPEG-1, 2, 4 and H.264 contrasted -- 1.4 Some applications of compression -- 1.5 Lossless and perceptive coding -- 1.6 Compression principles -- 1.7 Video compression -- 1.7.1 Intra-coded compression -- 1.7.2 Inter-coded compression -- 1.7.3 Introduction to motion compensation -- 1.7.4 Film-originated video compression -- 1.8 Introduction to MPEG-1 -- 1.9 MPEG-2: Profiles and Levels -- 1.10 Introduction to MPEG-4 -- 1.11 Introduction to H.264 (AVC) -- 1.12 Audio compression -- 1.12.1 Sub-band coding -- 1.12.2 Transform coding -- 1.12.3 Predictive coding -- 1.13 MPEG bitstreams -- 1.14 Drawbacks of compression -- 1.15 Compression pre-processing -- 1.16 Some guidelines -- References -- 2 Fundamentals -- 2.1 What is an audio signal? -- 2.2 What is a video signal? -- 2.3 Types of video -- 2.4 What is a digital signal? -- 2.5 Sampling -- 2.6 Reconstruction -- 2.7 Aperture effect -- 2.8 Choice of audio sampling rate -- 2.9 Video sampling structures -- 2.10 The phase-locked loop -- 2.11 Quantizing -- 2.12 Quantizing error -- 2.13 Dither -- 2.14 Introduction to digital processing -- 2.15 Logic elements -- 2.16 Storage elements -- 2.17 Binary coding -- 2.18 Gain control -- 2.19 Floating-point coding -- 2.20 Multiplexing principles -- 2.21 Packets -- 2.22 Statistical multiplexing -- 2.23 Timebase correction -- References -- 3 Processing for compression -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Transforms -- 3.3 Convolution -- 3.4 FIR and IIR filters -- 3.5 FIR filters -- 3.6 Interpolation -- 3.7 Downsampling filters -- 3.8 The quadrature mirror filter -- 3.9 Filtering for video noise reduction -- 3.10 Warping -- 3.11 Transforms and duality -- 3.12 The Fourier transform
• 3.13 The discrete cosine transform (DCT) -- 3.14 The wavelet transform -- 3.15 The importance of motion compensation -- 3.16 Motion-estimation techniques -- 3.16.1 Block matching -- 3.16.2 Gradient matching -- 3.16.3 Phase correlation -- 3.17 Motion-compensated displays -- 3.18 Camera-shake compensation -- 3.19 Motion-compensated de-interlacing -- 3.20 Compression and requantizing -- References -- 4 Audio compression -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The deciBel -- 4.3 Audio level metering -- 4.4 The ear -- 4.5 The cochlea -- 4.6 Level and loudness -- 4.7 Frequency discrimination -- 4.8 Critical bands -- 4.9 Beats -- 4.10 Codec level calibration -- 4.11 Quality measurement -- 4.12 The limits -- 4.13 Compression applications -- 4.14 Audio compression tools -- 4.15 Sub-band coding -- 4.16 Audio compression formats -- 4.17 MPEG audio compression -- 4.18 MPEG Layer I audio coding -- 4.19 MPEG Layer II audio coding -- 4.20 MPEG Layer III audio coding -- 4.21 MPEG-2 AAC - advanced audio coding -- 4.22 Dolby AC-3 -- 4.23 MPEG-4 audio -- 4.24 MPEG-4 AAC -- 4.25 Compression in stereo and surround sound -- References -- 5 MPEG video compression -- 5.1 The eye -- 5.2 Dynamic resolution -- 5.3 Contrast -- 5.4 Colour vision -- 5.5 Colour difference signals -- 5.6 Progressive or interlaced scan? -- 5.7 Spatial and temporal redundancy in MPEG -- 5.8 I and P coding -- 5.9 Bidirectional coding -- 5.10 Coding applications -- 5.11 Intra-coding -- 5.12 Intra-coding in MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 -- 5.13 A bidirectional coder -- 5.14 Slices -- 5.15 Handling interlaced pictures -- 5.16 MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 coders -- 5.17 The elementary stream -- 5.18 An MPEG-2 decoder -- 5.19 MPEG-4 and AVC -- 5.20 Video objects -- 5.21 Texture coding -- 5.22 Shape coding -- 5.23 Padding -- 5.24 Video object coding -- 5.25 Two-dimensional mesh coding -- 5.26 Sprites -- 5.27 Wavelet-based compression
• 5.28 Three-dimensional mesh coding -- 5.29 Animation -- 5.30 Scaleability -- 5.31 Advanced Video Coding (AVC) -- 5.32 Motion compensation in AVC -- 5.33 An AVC codec -- 5.34 AVC profiles and levels -- 5.35 Coding artifacts -- 5.36 MPEG and concatenation -- References -- 6 MPEG bitstreams -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Packets and time stamps -- 6.3 Transport streams -- 6.4 Clock references -- 6.5 Program Specific Information (PSI) -- 6.6 Multiplexing -- 6.7 Remultiplexing -- Reference -- 7 MPEG applications -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Telephones -- 7.3 Digital television broadcasting -- 7.4 The DVB receiver -- 7.5 ATSC -- 7.6 CD-Video and DVD -- 7.7 Personal video recorders -- 7.8 Networks -- 7.9 FireWire -- 7.10 Broadband networks and ATM -- 7.11 ATM AALs -- References -- Index