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Compressed Video Communications

ISBN: 978-0-470-84312-3

March 2002

304 pages

Description
Compressed Video Communications addresses the compression and transmission of coded video streams over mobile IP networks. By analysing a broad spectrum of compression techniques and error resilience algorithms this book provides realistic solutions to the problems of quality degradation and transmission error.

Features include:
* Discussion of the real-time transmission of coded video streams over mobile IP packet networks such as GPRS and UMTS, at both application and transport level.
* Descriptions of relevant rate control schemes such as bit rate regulation, scaleability and resolution reduction.
* Evaluation of the performance of compression techniques and comparison of available video coding standards.
* Comprehensive overview of homogeneous and heterogeneous video transcoding algorithms and error resilient transcoders.
* Examination of error control in video communications including coverage of error resilience and decoder-based error concealment.
* Accompanying CD-ROM containing 50 video clips illustrating the temporal and spatial quality achieved by the compression techniques outlined in the text.
Highlighting the quality of service issues associated with transmission over mobile networks, Compressed Video Communications is an essential guide for communications engineers and multimedia systems designers. This overview of the basic technologies and applications of digital video compression will also appeal to researchers and graduate students in the field.
About the Author

Dr Sadka has over 40 publications in peer-refereed journals and international conferences and several contributions to specialised books in the area of video coding and mobile video communication systems. He and his students have pioneered work on error resilience in video communications, video transmissions over packet networks and video transcoding for inter-network communications for the last 9 years. He provides consultancy to numerous companies in the UK Telecommunications industry, on several areas related to multimedia communications. He oversees the video research activity in the multimedia communications group at the University of Surrey and has a filed UK patent in the area of video transport over networks.