'Well written, well illustrated, and with numerous references, this book is recommended for libraries serving academic programs in engineering and computer science.' Choice 'Few authors can have succeeded so well in practising what they preach...Netravali and Haskell have compressed a vast amount of data into a single volume and the human task of decoding it is not unduly daunting.' Nature 'This will no doubt be the authoritative reference on these matters for some time to come.' Ultramicroscopy

• Numerical Representation of Visual Information. Common Picture Communication Systems. Redundancy-Statistics Models. Visual Psychophysics. Basic Compression Techniques. Examples of Codec Designs. Still Image Coding Standards-ISO JBIG and JPEG. CCITT H.261 (P*64) Videoconferencing Standards. Coding for Entertainment Video-ISO MPEG. High Definition Television. Postscript. Index.

'Well written, well illustrated, and with numerous references, this book is recommended for libraries serving academic programs in engineering and computer science.' Choice 'Few authors can have succeeded so well in practising what they preach...Netravali and Haskell have compressed a vast amount of data into a single volume and the human task of decoding it is not unduly daunting.' Nature 'This will no doubt be the authoritative reference on these matters for some time to come.' Ultramicroscopy

• Numerical Representation of Visual Information. Common Picture Communication Systems. Redundancy-Statistics Models. Visual Psychophysics. Basic Compression Techniques. Examples of Codec Designs. Still Image Coding Standards-ISO JBIG and JPEG. CCITT H.261 (P*64) Videoconferencing Standards. Coding for Entertainment Video-ISO MPEG. High Definition Television. Postscript. Index.

'Well written, well illustrated, and with numerous references, this book is recommended for libraries serving academic programs in engineering and computer science.' Choice 'Few authors can have succeeded so well in practising what they preach...Netravali and Haskell have compressed a vast amount of data into a single volume and the human task of decoding it is not unduly daunting.' Nature 'This will no doubt be the authoritative reference on these matters for some time to come.' Ultramicroscopy

• Numerical Representation of Visual Information. Common Picture Communication Systems. Redundancy-Statistics Models. Visual Psychophysics. Basic Compression Techniques. Examples of Codec Designs. Still Image Coding Standards-ISO JBIG and JPEG. CCITT H.261 (P*64) Videoconferencing Standards. Coding for Entertainment Video-ISO MPEG. High Definition Television. Postscript. Index.