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Iain E. Richardson (Author)
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This book deserves to be in every university library and it would be excellent as a course text. Also, if you have even a passing understanding of signal processing and want to know more, it′s a great read––VISUAL SYSTEMS JOURNAL, JUNE 2002

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"...an excellent book...if you have any interest in the subject it is worth every penny..." (Visual Systems Journal, June 2002)
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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Definately NOT The Best Video Book So Far 29 Jan 2003
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This book attempts to tell you everything about all the video
compression standards in less than 300 pages. Now does that
really sound possible ?

It was obviously put together this way to appeal to the widest
possible audience, and therefore dilutes its content on each
of the individual coding standards (MPEG-1,2,4 H.263, H.264)
to the point of being useless.

JPEG gets a disproportionate 5 pages, which is not video really,
and then MPEG-2 gets 3 pages and MPEG-4 1 page. Then H.261
H.263 and H.26L are grouped together and are discussed in 13
pages.

Then the book goes into Motion Estimation/Compensation, but
of course it's presented as a generic subject not specific
to any of the standards, which is okay for the pure ME part
but the various encoding modes of the individual standards
are lost (hey, isn't this a HUGE part of understanding
video compression ?).

Rate control, the brains of the video codec, is glossed over.
There is a brief intro to Rate-Distortion theory which doesn't
mention clearly that this is impractical from an implementation
standpoint, and then a brief rehash of TM5 for MPEG-2 and TM8
for H.263.

So far, the only decent book I've found on video compression
(where my interest has been MPEG-2) is "Techniques and Standards
for Image, Video and Audio Coding" by Rao and Hwang.

Then again, I haven't found a thing in any of these books that
you cannot find on the web for free that is much better.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Don't be fooled by the title of this book. 19 Jan 2004
By A reader works in image & video coding - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
This book belongs to the kind that gives you highest expectation before strongest disappointment.

Implied by its title, I bet most people will presume it focuses on the DESIGN of a video codec, not a REVIEW of various techniques in standards.

Unfortunately, only Chap. 13 has sth to do with DESIGN.

This book may be useful for people who do not know much about video coding, but it's not for people who looks for information on how to design a video codec.

From my experience, open source/free software packages, like MPEG4IP, MPEG2encode/decode, TMN H.263 codec, and standards documentation will offer much much more for a reader interested in DESIGN.

Not recommended because the title is too misleading.

Video Codec Design by Iaian E.G. Richardson. 28 Sep 2009
By Pol Madamba - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
I used this book as our reference textbook for a Digital Compression Course I took a few years ago. It had a good writeup on subjective quality measurement using the double stimulus continuous quality scale (DSCQS) method and objective quality measurement using PSNR. Also it's a good reference for video coding standards such as JPEG, MPEG, and for basic compression techniques such as vector quantization and Huffman coding. Pol Madamba (Review For Video Codec Design: Developing Image and Video Compression Systems by Iaian E.G. Richardson)Video Codec Design: Developing Image and Video Compression Systems

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