Video Processing and Communications

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Summary: A good book
Review: A good book for my class. Easy to teach. It saves my preparing time without reading too much.

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Summary: A good book
Review: The first 9 chapters of the book are too basic for students who want to find a job in video developments. But, it will be easy for some professors to teach a course. The later chapters include some good contents, but they are not really related to the early chapters. The second part of book should be a seperate book -- could be a good one. Also, more video application issues should be discussed -- I mean REAL applications -- since the title of the book is "... communications". It is quite weak in the "communications", e.g. file format, sync.,RTP,...

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Summary: for whom are studying video as a second ...
Review: The first 9 chapters of the book are too basic for students who want to find a job in video developments. But, it will be easy for some professors to teach a course. The later chapters include some good contents, but they are not really related to the early chapters. The second part of book should be a seperate book -- could be a good one. Also, more video application issues should be discussed -- I mean REAL applications -- since the title of the book is "... communications". It is quite weak in the "communications", e.g. file format, sync.,RTP,...

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Summary: The book is incomplete
Review: This book covers a lot of topics in one, including many state-of-art developments. The first half of the book covers the fundamentals of image and video coding and processing techniques. This part is not much different from other image/video processing books with basic theories and plenty of maths. The latter part contains new stuff, but I was disappointed by its incomplete introductions. Many sections assume the readers have good background and very briefly mention the topic without even defining some terms beforehand. It is recommended to read the referenced journal papers before trying to understand this part. Wavelet is only covered in several pages. A missing part!

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Summary: The book is incomplete
Review: This book covers a lot of topics in one, including many state-of-art developments. The first half of the book covers the fundamentals of image and video coding and processing techniques. This part is not much different from other image/video processing books with basic theories and plenty of maths. The latter part contains new stuff, but I was disappointed by its incomplete introductions. Many sections assume the readers have good background and very briefly mention the topic without even defining some terms beforehand. It is recommended to read the referenced journal papers before trying to understand this part. Wavelet is only covered in several pages. A missing part!

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Summary: See if this book can help you in real world ?
Review: This book is OK. It is a reference book for students. I heard the authors are experts in developing real video systems. But, I couldn't find what I would like to learn from their book.

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Summary: Excellent
Review: This new textbook covers basic topics on digital video processing as well as a variety of advanced topics on video coding and communication. The authors have been doing leading research on video processing and communications for years. We used it to cover the video topics in a graduate introductory course on image and video processing, and also plan to use it as a reference book for a advanced topic course on multimedia communications. The material is clearly presented with many illustrations. Later parts of the book give a good overview of the state-of-the-art technologies on video compression and communication. There is also an appendix section giving the answers to selected problems. In my opinion, the book is a very good starting point for people interested in the video technologies. It helps to build solid foundations. The book can be complemented with latest research papers for advanced study, or with detailed video coding standards for implementing practical systems.