Visual Information Representation, Communication, and Image Processing (Hardcover)

This trailblazing reference discusses the most recent advances in representation and communication of visual signals-focusing on the explosive growth of key technologies such as compression algorithms and standards, video conferencing and communication applications, and image processing methodologies and implementations. The new techniques examined here are having a profound impact on multimedia computers, videophones, video-over-Internet, HDTV, digital satellite TV, and interactive computer games. Written by over 30 international experts, Visual Information Representation, Communication, and Image Processing presents the latest developments in wavelet-based, object-based, and model-based image compression and video coding illustrates the interrelation of visual features (motion, shape, and texture), computing processors, communication systems, visual learning, and many other components examines competing systems, such as block-based and mesh-based motion modeling explains analysis methods such as Gibbs random field, minimum-error based Bayesian clustering, and Gabor transformation evaluates various coding standards such as H.261 and H.263 for videophone and videoconferencing, and MPEG-4 for object-based multimedia communcation describes advances in visual communication applications such as multipoint video conferencing, video shot detection, image stabilization, digital printing, and parallel implementation and more Containing over 800 bibliographic references and profusely illustrated with more than 550 useful tables, equations, drawings, and photographs, Visual Information Representation, Communication, and Image Processing is required reading for optical, photooptical, electrical, and electronics engineers; material, computer, and vision scientists; imaging technologists; physicists; and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.