Download or read book Compression for Multimedia written by Irina Bocharova and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a thorough theoretical understanding of lossy compression techniques and systems, plus key features, applications, implementation issues, and design trade-offs. It also includes detailed comparisons of multimedia standards and their common and distinguishing features, examples based on real multimedia data, end-of-chapter review problems, and the basics of lossless coding.