- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- PREFACE TO FOURTH EDITION
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- CHAPTER 1 Introducing Digital Video
- Television systems
- Video signals
- Digital video
- Standard and high-definition video
- Colour
- Convergence of video and information technology
- Basics: transmission, storage, and compression
- Time compression and packetising
- Synchronisation and time base correction
- Error correction and concealment
- Transmission
- Storage
- Video compression and MPEG
- Real time?
- Digital audio
- Digital cinema
- References
- CHAPTER 2 Optical and Video Principles
- Introduction
- What is light?
- Sources of light
- Optical principles
- Photometric units
- The human visual system
- The eye
- Motion portrayal and dynamic resolution
- Scanning
- ESSAY: Progressive or interlaced scan?
- Synchronising
- Bandwidth and definition
- Aperture effect
- Scanning formats for SD and HDTV
- Colour vision
- Colorimetry
- Colour difference signals
- CHAPTER 3 Digital Principles
- Introduction
- Digital processing
- Binary addition
- Gain control by multiplication
- The computer
- Interrupts
- Digital signal processors
- Time base correction
- Multiplexing principles
- Statistical multiplexing
- Digital faders and controls
- ESSAY: The Galois field
- Filters
- Transforms
- Convolution
- FIR and IIR filters
- FIR filters
- Sampling-rate conversion
- Transforms and duality
- The Fourier transform
- The discrete cosine transform (DCT)
- The wavelet transform
- References
- CHAPTER 4 Conversion
- Introduction to conversion
- Sampling and aliasing
- Reconstruction
- Filter design
- Two-dimensional sampling spectra
- Sampling clock jitter
- Quantizing
- Quantizing error
- Introduction to dither
- Requantizing and digital dither
- ESSAY: Dither techniques
- Basic digital-to-analog conversion
- Basic analog-to-digital conversion
- ESSAY: Oversampling
- Factors affecting convertor quality
- ESSAY: Digitizing component video
- Colour in the digital domain
- References
- CHAPTER 5 Digital Video Processing
- Introduction
- A simple digital vision mixer
- Blanking
- Keying
- Chroma keying
- Simple effects
- Planar digital video effects
- Address generation and interpolation
- Skew and rotation
- Perspective rotation
- Non-planar effects
- Controlling effects
- Graphics
- ESSAY: Converting between computer and video formats
- Graphic art/paint systems
- Linear and non-linear editing
- Online and offline editing
- Digital filmmaking
- The non-linear workstation
- Locating the edit point
- Performing the edit
- Applications of motion compensation
- ESSAY: Motion-estimation techniques
- Motion-compensated standards conversion
- Camera-shake compensation
- De-interlacing
- Noise reduction
- References
- CHAPTER 6 Video Compression and MPEG
- Introduction to compression
- What is MPEG?
- Spatial and temporal redundancy in MPEG
- I and P coding
- Coding applications
- Spatial compression
- Scanning and run-length/variable-length coding
- A bi-directional coder
- Slices
- An MPEG-2 coder
- The elementary stream
- An MPEG-2 decoder
- MPEG-4 and advanced video coding (AVC)
- Texture coding
- Advanced video coding
- Motion compensation (MC) in AVC
- An AVC codec
- Coding artifacts
- Processing MPEG-2 and concatenation
- References
- CHAPTER 7 Digital Audio in Video
- What is sound?
- Level and loudness
- Critical bands
- ESSAY: Stereo and surround sound
- Choice of sampling rate for audio
- Basic digital-to-analog conversion
- Basic analog-to-digital conversion
- Alternative convertors
- Oversampling and noise shaping
- One-bit convertors
- Operating levels in digital audio
- MPEG audio compression
- Dolby AC-3
- References
- CHAPTER 8 Digital Coding Principles
- Introduction
- Types of transmission channel
- Transmission lines
- Types of recording medium
- Magnetic recording
- Optical and magneto-optical disks
- Equalization and data separation
- Slicing and jitter rejection
- Channel coding
- Simple codes
- Group codes
- Randomizing and encryption
- ESSAY: Partial response
- Basic error correction
- Concealment by interpolation
- Block and convolutional codes
- Cyclic codes
- ESSAY: The Reed–Solomon codes
- References
- CHAPTER 9 Storage Technology
- Introduction
- Disk storage
- Magnetic disks
- Accessing the blocks
- Servo-surface disks
- The disk controller
- Defect handling
- Disk servers
- Optical disk principles
- Focus and tracking systems
- Structure of a DVD player
- Digital videotape
- The rotary head tape transport
- Digital video cassettes
- Digital VTR block diagram
- DV and DVCPRO
- CHAPTER 10 Communication Systems
- Introduction
- Production-related interfaces
- Serial digital video interfaces
- Synchronising
- SD-SDI
- HD-SDI
- Ancillary data
- SDTI
- ASI
- AES/EBU
- Telephone-based systems
- Digital television broadcasting
- MPEG packets and time stamps
- Program-specific information (PSI)
- Transport stream multiplexing
- Broadcast modulation techniques
- ESSAY: OFDM
- Error correction in digital television broadcasting
- DVB
- The DVB receiver
- ATSC
- Networks
- Network arbitration
- FireWire
- Broadband networks and ATM
- ATM AALs
- References
- INDEX
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