Contents
About the Author xiii
Foreword xv
Preface xix
Glossary xxi
1 Introduction 1
1.1 The Scene 1
1.2 Video Compression 3
1.3 MPEG-4 and H.264 5
1.4 This Book 6
1.5 References 7
2 Video Formats and Quality 9
2.1 Introduction 9
2.2 Natural Video Scenes 9
2.3 Capture 10
2.3.1 Spatial Sampling 11
2.3.2 Temporal Sampling 11
2.3.3 Frames and Fields 13
2.4 Colour Spaces 13
2.4.1 RGB 14
2.4.2 YCbCr 15
2.4.3 YCbCr Sampling Formats 17
2.5 Video Formats 19
2.6 Quality 20
2.6.1 Subjective Quality Measurement 21
2.6.2 Objective Quality Measurement 22
2.7 Conclusions 24
2.8 References 24
