Academic Press Library in Signal Processing - 9780124201491

Signal processing is an essential aspect of mobile and wireless communications, electronic systems, and biomedical engineering. It includes areas such as speech, audio, image and video processing.
Engineers in these fields need to understand, test, develop and apply new signal processing methods and techniques and apply them to potential application areas.
This fifth volume, edited and authored by the world’s leading experts, gives a review of the principles, methods and techniques of vital and emerging research topics and technologies in Image and Video Compression and Multimedia Security.

• Quick tutorial reviews of important and emerging topics of research in Image and Video Compression and Multimedia Security
• Solves the needs of university based researchers and R&D engineers in industry for high-level overviews on new technologies, including algorithms for testing and using, and applications to demonstrate different methods of implementation
• Provides insight and understanding of new technologies: modular overviews with in depth information on developing new methods and techniques, with updated references to key papers, enabling the researcher to keep on top of key developments in the field
• Delivers a path through the maze of information: a comprehensive resource with different levels of structured content with references to more advanced and specific information available through journal articles. Benefit: the reader can easily get to grips with a new area and find sources to obtain specific, more advanced information
• Brand recognition through the reputation of the editors and authors: each volume is edited by the world’s leading people in the field who, because of their reputation, have been able commission the leading experts on a particular technology