Handbook of Visual Communications

Research and product development in visual communciations has advanced quite rapidly in the past two decades. The Handbook of Visual Communications is designed to provide comprehensive coverage of this important technical field. A partial list of topics covered in this book includes image coding and information theory; human vision; bilevel image compression; motion estimation; vector quantization; tranform, subband, hierarchical, and model-based coding; hybrid high-definition television; international standards; video communication networks;; and VLSI for video coding. As a collective contribution from scholars and experts from all over the world, this book provides readers with accurate and state-of-the- art knowledge in this fast-growing field.Hang, Hseuh-Ming is the author of 'Handbook of Visual Communications' with ISBN 9780123230508 and ISBN 0123230500.