PREFACE TO FOURTH EDITION

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

CHAPTER 1 Introducing Digital Video

Television systems

Video signals

Digital video

Standard and high-definition video

Colour

Convergence of video and information technology

Basics: transmission, storage, and compression

Time compression and packetising

Synchronisation and time base correction

Error correction and concealment

Transmission

Storage

Video compression and MPEG

Real time?

Digital audio

Digital cinema

References

CHAPTER 2 Optical and Video Principles

Introduction

What is light?

Sources of light

Optical principles

Photometric units

The human visual system

The eye

Motion portrayal and dynamic resolution

Scanning

ESSAY: Progressive or interlaced scan?

Synchronising

Bandwidth and definition

Aperture effect

Scanning formats for SD and HDTV

Colour vision

Colorimetry

Colour difference signals

CHAPTER 3 Digital Principles

Introduction

Digital processing

Binary addition

Gain control by multiplication

The computer

Interrupts

Digital signal processors

Time base correction

Multiplexing principles

Statistical multiplexing

Digital faders and controls

ESSAY: The Galois field

Filters

Transforms

Convolution

FIR and IIR filters

FIR filters

Sampling-rate conversion

Transforms and duality

The Fourier transform

The discrete cosine transform (DCT)

The wavelet transform

References

CHAPTER 4 Conversion

Introduction to conversion

Sampling and aliasing

Reconstruction

Filter design

Two-dimensional sampling spectra

Sampling clock jitter

Quantizing

Quantizing error

Introduction to dither

Requantizing and digital dither

ESSAY: Dither techniques

Basic digital-to-analog conversion

Basic analog-to-digital conversion

ESSAY: Oversampling

Factors affecting convertor quality

ESSAY: Digitizing component video

Colour in the digital domain

References

CHAPTER 5 Digital Video Processing

Introduction

A simple digital vision mixer

Blanking

Keying

Chroma keying

Simple effects

Planar digital video effects

Address generation and interpolation

Skew and rotation

Perspective rotation

Non-planar effects

Controlling effects

Graphics

ESSAY: Converting between computer and video formats

Graphic art/paint systems

Linear and non-linear editing

Online and offline editing

Digital filmmaking

The non-linear workstation

Locating the edit point

Performing the edit

Applications of motion compensation

ESSAY: Motion-estimation techniques

Motion-compensated standards conversion

Camera-shake compensation

De-interlacing

Noise reduction

References

CHAPTER 6 Video Compression and MPEG

Introduction to compression

What is MPEG?

Spatial and temporal redundancy in MPEG

I and P coding

Coding applications

Spatial compression

Scanning and run-length/variable-length coding

A bi-directional coder

Slices

An MPEG-2 coder

The elementary stream

An MPEG-2 decoder

MPEG-4 and advanced video coding (AVC)

Texture coding

Advanced video coding

Motion compensation (MC) in AVC

An AVC codec

Coding artifacts

Processing MPEG-2 and concatenation

References

CHAPTER 7 Digital Audio in Video

What is sound?

Level and loudness

Critical bands

ESSAY: Stereo and surround sound

Choice of sampling rate for audio

Basic digital-to-analog conversion

Basic analog-to-digital conversion

Alternative convertors

Oversampling and noise shaping

One-bit convertors

Operating levels in digital audio

MPEG audio compression

Dolby AC-3

References

CHAPTER 8 Digital Coding Principles

Introduction

Types of transmission channel

Transmission lines

Types of recording medium

Magnetic recording

Optical and magneto-optical disks

Equalization and data separation

Slicing and jitter rejection

Channel coding

Simple codes

Group codes

Randomizing and encryption

ESSAY: Partial response

Basic error correction

Concealment by interpolation

Block and convolutional codes

Cyclic codes

ESSAY: The Reed–Solomon codes

References

CHAPTER 9 Storage Technology

Introduction

Disk storage

Magnetic disks

Accessing the blocks

Servo-surface disks

The disk controller

Defect handling

Disk servers

Optical disk principles

Focus and tracking systems

Structure of a DVD player

Digital videotape

The rotary head tape transport

Digital video cassettes

Digital VTR block diagram

DV and DVCPRO

CHAPTER 10 Communication Systems

Introduction

Production-related interfaces

Serial digital video interfaces

Synchronising

SD-SDI

HD-SDI

Ancillary data

SDTI

ASI

AES/EBU

Telephone-based systems

Digital television broadcasting

MPEG packets and time stamps

Program-specific information (PSI)

Transport stream multiplexing

Broadcast modulation techniques

ESSAY: OFDM

Error correction in digital television broadcasting

DVB

The DVB receiver

ATSC

Networks

Network arbitration

FireWire

Broadband networks and ATM

ATM AALs

References

INDEX