Digital Television Technology and Standards

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Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2007-09-17
Publisher(s): Wiley-Interscience
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Summary

Written as an academic textbook aimed at final year undergraduate or postgraduate engineers,Digital Television: Technology and Standards covers all aspects of digital video broadcasting. The book covers Video, Audio, and Systems. The various chapters in the book are supported by appropriate examples given in MATLAB.

Author Biography

John Arnold, PhD, has been with the University of New South Wales since 1978, most recently at University College, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia. He is currently Professor of Electrical Engineering and Deputy Head of the University College. His research interests lie in the fields of video coding, error resilience of compressed digital video, and coding of remotely sensed data, and he is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology.

Michael Frater, PhD, has been with the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, since 1991, where he is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering. His research interests include audio-visual communications and communications systems.

Mark Pickering, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering with the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra. His research interests include video and audio coding, data compression, information security, data networks, and error-resilient data transmission.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction to Analog and Digital Television
Characteristics of Video Material
Predictive Encoding
Transform Coding
Video Coder Syntax
The MPEG-2 Video Compression Standard
Perceptual Audio Coding
Frequency Analysis and Synthesis
MPEG Audio
Dolby AC-3 Audio
MPEG-2 Systems
DVB Service Information and ATSC Program and System Information Protocol
Digital Television Channel Coding and Modulation
Closed Captioning, Subtitling, and Teletext
Appendix: MPEG Tables
Index
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