Video Compression and Communications
From Basics to H.261, H.263, H.264, MPEG4 for DVB and HSDPA-Style Adaptive Turbo-Transceivers
Chapter One
Introduction
1.1 A Brief Introduction to Compression Theory
The ultimate aim of data compression is the removal of redundancy from the source signal.
This, therefore, reduces the number of binary bits required to represent the information
contained within the source. Achieving the best possible compression ratio requires not only
an understanding of the nature of the source signal in its binary representation, but also how
we as humans interpret the information that the data represents.
We live in a world of rapidly improving computing and communications capabilities,
and owing to an unprecedented increase in computer awareness, the demand for computer
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