Visual Media Coding and Transmission

This book presents the state-of-the-art in visual media codingand transmission
Visual Media Coding and Transmission is an output ofVISNET II NoE, which is an EC IST-FP6 collaborative researchproject by twelve esteemed institutions from across Europe in thefields of networked audiovisual systems and home platforms. Theauthors provide information that will be essential for the futurestudy and development of visual media communications technologies. The book contains details of video coding principles, which lead toadvanced video coding developments in the form of Scalable Coding, Distributed Video Coding, Non-Normative Video Coding Tools andTransform Based Multi-View Coding. Having detailed the latest workin Visual Media Coding, networking aspects of Video Communicationis detailed. Various Wireless Channel Models are presented to formthe basis for both link level quality of service (QoS) and crossnetwork transmission of compressed visual data. Finally, Context-Based Visual Media Content Adaptation is discussed withsome examples.
Key Features:
* Contains the latest advances in this important field coveredby VISNET II NoE
* Addresses the latest multimedia signal processing and codingalgorithms
* Covers all important advance video coding techniques, scalableand multiple description coding, distributed video coding andnon-normative tools
* Discusses visual media networking with various wirelesschannel models
* QoS methods by way of link adaptation techniques are detailedwith examples
* Presents a visual media content adaptation platform, which isboth context aware and digital rights management enabled
* Contains contributions from highly respected academic andindustrial organizations
Visual Media Coding and Transmission will benefitresearchers and engineers in the wireless communications and signalprocessing fields. It will also be of interest to graduate and PhDstudents on media processing, coding and communicationscourses.