Digital Video Quality
Chapter One
Introduction
'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked.
'Begin at the beginning,' the King said, gravely,
'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'
Lewis Carroll
1.1 MOTIVATION
Humans are highly visual creatures. Evolution has invested a large part of our
neurological resources in visual perception. We are experts at grasping visual
environments in a fraction of a second and rely on visual information for
many of our day-to-day activities. It is not surprising that, as our world is
becoming more digital every day, digital images and digital video are
becoming ubiquitous.
In light of this development, optimizing the performance of digital
imaging systems with respect to the capture, display, storage and transmission
of visual information is one of the most important challenges in this
domain. Video compression schemes should reduce the visibility of the
introduced artifacts, watermarking schemes sh ... read full excerpt from Digital Video Quality: Vision Models and Metrics ebook
