 | JPEG: Still Image Data Compression Standard (Digital Multimedia Standards) by William B. Pennebaker; Joan L. Mitchell
Buy new: $103.15 / Used from: $15.49 MPEG-1 video, very simplistically, is a series of JPEG images. This is a good description of the JPEG standard.
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 | JPEG2000 Standard for Image Compression: Concepts, Algorithms and VLSI Architectures by Tinku Acharya
Buy new: $73.12 / Used from: $61.47 JPEG 2000 is wavelet-based vs JPEG's DCT based compression. Has a good discussion of all issues related to the standard including HW implementation.
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 | MPEG Video Compression Standard (Digital Multimedia Standards Series) by Chad Fogg; Didier J. LeGall; Joan L. Mitchell; William B. Pennebaker
Buy new: $157.99 / Used from: $38.78 Mainly about the MPEG-1 video standard, it is the most detailed book on the subject.
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 | Digital Television, Second Edition: MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and Principles of the DVB System
Buy new: $52.15 / Used from: $5.27 Gives a broad overview of MPEG-1 & MPEG-2. Mainly about DVB systems.
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 | Digital Video and HDTV: Algorithms and Interfaces (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics) by Charles Poynton
Buy new: $51.76 / Used from: $30.99 Since MPEG-2 was really meant for digital TV, you might need to know the algorithms and interfaces associated with digital video and HDTV.
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 | Digital Video: An introduction to MPEG-2 (Digital Multimedia Standards Series) by Barry G. Haskell
Buy new: $115.91 / Used from: $9.50 All about the MPEG-2 video standard. Many people hate this book, but it is the most detailed out there.
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 | Introduction to Digital Audio Coding and Standards (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science) by Marina Bosi
Buy new: $142.34 / Used from: $63.38 About audio coding in general and MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 audio specifically.
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 | Digital Video Image Quality and Perceptual Coding (Signal Processing and Communications)
Buy new: $141.44 / Used from: $172.84 The latest in research on digital video coding issues. Very expensive and very accessible.
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 | The MPEG-4 Book by Fernando Pereira
Buy new: $73.32 / Used from: $49.99 MPEG-4 is, most simplistically, object-oriented multimedia. This is a broad overview of the standard.
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 | VRML 2.0 Sourcebook, 2nd Edition by Andrea L. Ames
Buy new: $53.55 / Used from: $1.51 VRML is MPEG-4's ancestor. Most of what works in MPEG-4 today worked in VRML. It would be worth it to know the format of the standard.
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 | Processing XML with Java(TM): A Guide to SAX, DOM, JDOM, JAXP, and TrAX by Elliotte Rusty Harold
Buy new: $43.86 / Used from: $6.35 Java and XML working together are large parts of the standards and tools of MPEG-4, MPEG-7, and MPEG-21. It's worth it to be an expert.
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 | Algorithms, Complexity Analysis and VLSI Architectures for MPEG-4 Motion Estimation by Peter M. Kuhn
Buy new: $122.58 / Used from: $49.38 Very good for describing MPEG-4 motion estimation techniques.
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 | Video Demystified, Fourth Edition (Demystifying Technology) by Keith Jack
Buy new: $75.95 / Used from: $32.98 Mainly about hardware, but it has an accessible discussion of MPEG-1,2,4 encoding. Source code for MPEG-1, MPEG-2, H.261, and H.263 video encoders and decoders are on the CD.
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 | Introduction to MPEG 7: Multimedia Content Description Language by Phillipe Salembier
Buy new: $135.84 / Used from: $60.00 MPEG-7 is a means of multimedia information retrieval. This is a broad introduction.
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 | Modern Information Retrieval by Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Buy used from: $31.12 Clearly describes the algorithms for all type of information retrieval schemes. Very useful for MPEG-7.
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 | Digital Image Processing (2nd Edition) by Rafael C. Gonzalez
Buy used from: $36.00 The 3rd edition is overdue. This is full of info on image processing and recognition relevant to MPEG-7.
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 | Computer Vision by Linda G. Shapiro
Buy new: $110.16 / Used from: $84.99 Good general text on computer vision plus it has info about image indexing techniques relevant to MPEG-7.
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 | Curvature Scale Space Representation: Theory, Applications, and MPEG-7 Standardization (Computational Imaging and Vision) by F. Mokhtarian
Buy new: $135.00 / Used from: $103.87 Gets very specific about the visual descriptor part of MPEG-7.
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 | MPEG-7 Audio and Beyond: Audio Content Indexing and Retrieval by Hyoung-Gook Kim
Buy new: $130.00 / Used from: $101.54 Talks about the MPEG-7 audio descriptors used for retrieval.
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 | The MPEG-21 Book
Buy new: $150.00 / Used from: $112.15 MPEG-21 is about the distribution of multimedia data. This is a good overview of the standard.
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 | Distributed Multimedia Database Technologies Supported by MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 by Harald Kosch
Buy new: $113.82 / Used from: $74.82 A high-level book on how MPEG-7, MPEG-21, and SQL/MM can work together to produce distributed multimedia databases. More of a "what if" than a "what is" book.
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