Acknowledgements

We would like to thank a few of the great many people whose contributions were instrumental in taking this book from an initial suggestion to a final product. First, we would like to express our gratitude to Dr. Chi-Yuan Yao for his help on collecting and sketching the content in Sections 9.1 and 9.2 and help with finishing Chapter 9 in time. We also thank him for his input on scene representation because of his deep domain knowledge in the field of computer geometry. We would like to thank Dr. Peng Yin and Dr. Taoran Lu for their help in enriching the introduction of HEVC. We also thank Mr. Dobromir Todorov for help in rendering figures used in Chapters 2 and 9. Finally, the authors appreciate the many contributions and sacrifices that our families have made to this effort. Guan-Ming Su would like to thanks his wife Jing-Wen's unlimited support and understanding during the writing process; and also would like to dedicate this book to his parents. Yu-Chi Lai would like to thank his family for their support of his work. Andres Kwasinski would like to thank his wife Mariela and daughters Victoria and Emma for their support, without which this work would not have been possible. Andres would also like to thank all the members of the Department of Computer Engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Haohong Wang would like to thank his wife Xin Lu, son Nicholas and daughter Isabelle for their kind supports as always, especially for those weekends and nights that he had to be separated from them to work on this book at the office. The dedication of this book to our families is a sincere but inadequate recognition of all their contributions to our work.