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A complete, professional 'bible' on all aspects of audio and video compression using MPEG technology, including the MPEG-4 standard and, in this second edition, H-264. The clarity of explanation and depth of technical detail combine to make this book an essential and definitive reference work. THE MPEG HANDBOOK is both a theoretical and practical treatment of the subject. Fundamental knowledge is provided alongside practical guidance on how to avoid pitfalls and poor quality. The often-neglected issues of reconstructing the signal timebase at the decoder and of synchronizing the signals in a multiplex are treated fully here. Previously titled MPEG-2, the book is frequently revised to cover the latest applications of the technology.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Preface (p. xi)
• Acknowledgements (p. xii)
• Chapter 1 Introduction to compression (p. 1)
• 1.1 What is MPEG? (p. 1)
• 1.2 Why compression is necessary (p. 3)
• 1.3 MPEG-1, 2, 4 and H.264 contrasted (p. 4)
• 1.4 Some applications of compression (p. 5)
• 1.5 Lossless and perceptive coding (p. 7)
• 1.6 Compression principles (p. 9)
• 1.7 Video compression (p. 14)
• 1.7.1 Intra-coded compression (p. 16)
• 1.7.2 Inter-coded compression (p. 16)
• 1.7.3 Introduction to motion compensation (p. 18)
• 1.7.4 Film-originated video compression (p. 19)
• 1.8 Introduction to MPEG-1 (p. 21)
• 1.9 MPEG-2: Profiles and Levels (p. 21)
• 1.10 Introduction to MPEG-4 (p. 24)
• 1.11 Introduction to H.264 (AVC) (p. 26)
• 1.12 Audio compression (p. 28)
• 1.12.1 Sub-band coding (p. 28)
• 1.12.2 Transform coding (p. 28)
• 1.12.3 Predictive coding (p. 29)
• 1.13 MPEG bitstreams (p. 29)
• 1.14 Drawbacks of compression (p. 30)
• 1.15 Compression pre-processing (p. 32)
• 1.16 Some guidelines (p. 32)
• References (p. 33)
• Chapter 2 Fundamentals (p. 35)
• 2.1 What is an audio signal? (p. 35)
• 2.2 What is a video signal? (p. 35)
• 2.3 Types of video (p. 36)
• 2.4 What is a digital signal? (p. 38)
• 2.5 Sampling (p. 41)
• 2.6 Reconstruction (p. 46)
• 2.7 Aperture effect (p. 50)
• 2.8 Choice of audio sampling rate (p. 52)
• 2.9 Video sampling structures (p. 56)
• 2.10 The phase-locked loop (p. 58)
• 2.11 Quantizing (p. 60)
• 2.12 Quantizing error (p. 61)
• 2.13 Dither (p. 65)
• 2.14 Introduction to digital processing (p. 67)
• 2.15 Logic elements (p. 69)
• 2.16 Storage elements (p. 71)
• 2.17 Binary coding (p. 73)
• 2.18 Gain control (p. 84)
• 2.19 Floating-point coding (p. 85)
• 2.20 Multiplexing principles (p. 87)
• 2.21 Packets (p. 88)
• 2.22 Statistical multiplexing (p. 88)
• 2.23 Timebase correction (p. 89)
• References (p. 91)
• Chapter 3 Processing for compression (p. 92)
• 3.1 Introduction (p. 92)
• 3.2 Transforms (p. 95)
• 3.3 Convolution (p. 97)
• 3.4 FIR and IIR filters (p. 97)
• 3.5 FIR filters (p. 100)
• 3.6 Interpolation (p. 107)
• 3.7 Downsampling filters (p. 116)
• 3.8 The quadrature mirror filter (p. 117)
• 3.9 Filtering for video noise reduction (p. 121)
• 3.10 Warping (p. 123)
• 3.11 Transforms and duality (p. 129)
• 3.12 The Fourier transform (p. 132)
• 3.13 The discrete cosine transform (DCT) (p. 138)
• 3.14 The wavelet transform (p. 140)
• 3.15 The importance of motion compensation (p. 147)
• 3.16 Motion-estimation techniques (p. 150)
• 3.16.1 Block matching (p. 150)
• 3.16.2 Gradient matching (p. 152)
• 3.16.3 Phase correlation (p. 153)
• 3.17 Motion-compensated displays (p. 158)
• 3.18 Camera-shake compensation (p. 159)
• 3.19 Motion-compensated de-interlacing (p. 161)
• 3.20 Compression and requantizing (p. 162)
• References (p. 167)
• Chapter 4 Audio compression (p. 169)
• 4.1 Introduction (p. 169)
• 4.2 The deciBel (p. 170)
• 4.3 Audio level metering (p. 175)
• 4.4 The ear (p. 177)
• 4.5 The cochlea (p. 180)
• 4.6 Level and loudness (p. 182)
• 4.7 Frequency discrimination (p. 183)
• 4.8 Critical bands (p. 184)
• 4.9 Beats (p. 187)
• 4.10 Codec level calibration (p. 188)
• 4.11 Quality measurement (p. 189)
• 4.12 The limits (p. 191)
• 4.13 Compression applications (p. 192)
• 4.14 Audio compression tools (p. 192)
• 4.15 Sub-band coding (p. 197)
• 4.16 Audio compression formats (p. 198)
• 4.17 MPEG audio compression (p. 199)
• 4.18 MPEG Layer I audio coding (p. 201)
• 4.19 MPEG Layer II audio coding (p. 206)
• 4.20 MPEG Layer III audio coding (p. 208)
• 4.21 MPEG-2 AAC - advanced audio coding (p. 212)
• 4.22 Dolby AC-3 (p. 218)
• 4.23 MPEG-4 audio (p. 219)
• 4.24 MPEG-4 AAC (p. 220)
• 4.25 Compression in stereo and surround sound (p. 221)
• References (p. 227)
• Chapter 5 MPEG video compression (p. 230)
• 5.1 The eye (p. 230)
• 5.2 Dynamic resolution (p. 234)
• 5.3 Contrast (p. 238)
• 5.4 Colour vision (p. 240)
• 5.5 Colour difference signals (p. 240)
• 5.6 Progressive or interlaced scan? (p. 245)
• 5.7 Spatial and temporal redundancy in MPEG (p. 250)
• 5.8 I and P coding (p. 255)
• 5.9 Bidirectional coding (p. 256)
• 5.10 Coding applications (p. 259)
• 5.11 Intra-coding (p. 260)
• 5.12 Intra-coding in MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 (p. 265)
• 5.13 A bidirectional coder (p. 270)
• 5.14 Slices (p. 274)
• 5.15 Handling interlaced pictures (p. 275)
• 5.16 MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 coders (p. 281)
• 5.17 The elementary stream (p. 282)
• 5.18 An MPEG-2 decoder (p. 283)
• 5.19 MPEG-4 and AVC (p. 286)
• 5.20 Video objects (p. 288)
• 5.21 Texture coding (p. 291)
• 5.22 Shape coding (p. 297)
• 5.23 Padding (p. 299)
• 5.24 Video object coding (p. 301)
• 5.25 Two-dimensional mesh coding (p. 303)
• 5.26 Sprites (p. 308)
• 5.27 Wavelet-based compression (p. 310)
• 5.28 Three-dimensional mesh coding (p. 315)
• 5.29 Animation (p. 324)
• 5.30 Scaleability (p. 326)
• 5.31 Advanced Video Coding (AVC) (p. 328)
• 5.32 Motion compensation in AVC (p. 335)
• 5.33 An AVC codec (p. 337)
• 5.34 AVC profiles and levels (p. 340)
• 5.35 Coding artifacts (p. 340)
• 5.36 MPEG and concatenation (p. 346)
• References (p. 352)
• Chapter 6 MPEG bitstreams (p. 353)
• 6.1 Introduction (p. 353)
• 6.2 Packets and time stamps (p. 355)
• 6.3 Transport streams (p. 357)
• 6.4 Clock references (p. 359)
• 6.5 Program Specific Information (PSI) (p. 361)
• 6.6 Multiplexing (p. 362)
• 6.7 Remultiplexing (p. 364)
• Reference (p. 365)
• Chapter 7 MPEG applications (p. 366)
• 7.1 Introduction (p. 366)
• 7.2 Telephones (p. 367)
• 7.3 Digital television broadcasting (p. 368)
• 7.4 The DVB receiver (p. 381)
• 7.5 ATSC (p. 383)
• 7.6 CD-Video and DVD (p. 389)
• 7.7 Personal video recorders (p. 394)
• 7.8 Networks (p. 397)
• 7.9 FireWire (p. 405)
• 7.10 Broadband networks and ATM (p. 407)
• 7.11 ATM AALs (p. 411)
• References (p. 414)
• Index (p. 415)