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Dedication
by John Watkinson
The Art of Digital Video, 4th Edition
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
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