Intelligent Image and Video Compression: Communicating Pictures, Second Edition explains the requirements, analysis, design and application of a modern video coding system. It draws on the authors' extensive academic and professional experience in this field to deliver a text that is algorithmically rigorous yet accessible, relevant to modern standards and practical. It builds on a thorough grounding in mathematical foundations and visual perception to demonstrate how modern image and video compression methods can be designed to meet the rate-quality performance levels demanded by today's applications and users, in the context of prevailing network constraints.An approach that combines algorithmic rigor with practical implementation using numerous worked examplesExplains how video compression methods exploit statistical redundancies, natural correlations, and knowledge of human perception to improve performanceUses contemporary video coding standards (AVC, HEVC and VVC) as a vehicle for explaining block-based compressionProvides broad coverage of important topics such as visual quality assessment and video streaming
