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Dear
colleagues, I am
proud to announce the publication of my latest book: "Digital
Video and Television", by Prof Ioannis Pitas, 2013. The
book provides the most up-to-date introduction to digital video and television.
The entire process is covered, from video production, to its delivery through
broadcasting or streaming. Digital video cameras, video acquisition, color
theory and visual quality are presented. Various video compression methods (MPEG-2,
MPEG-4, HEVC) and broadcasting systems (ATSC, DVB, DTMB, ISDB) are overviewed.
The latest trends in visual effects and post-production for 3DTV and digital
cinema are also presented. Stereo (3DTV) video acquisition, quality,
broadcasting and display are overviewed. Additionally, some aspects of digital
video processing, like quality enhancement, format conversion, image transforms
or filtering, as well as video analysis topics, such as motion estimation,
human/object detection, recognition and tracking, are overviewed. Video
interfaces (HDMI, DVI), optical storage (DVD, Blu-ray) and display/projection
technologies are presented. Finally, video description standards (MPEG-7,
AVDP), archiving and search/retrieval mechanisms are detailed. The book avoids
delving into extreme details, in order to be easily comprehensible by
non-technical readers. A concise list of chapters follows: 1)
Introduction to digital video, 2) Digital video acquisition, 3) Human visual
perception, 4) Video processing, 5) Video analysis, 6) Video production, 7)
Video compression, 8) Digital television broadcasting, 9) Media streaming, 10)
Digital video interface standards, 11) Digital video peripheral devices, 12)
Digital cinema, 13) Three-dimensional digital television, 14) Video storage,
search and retrieval. Available
from Amazon.com for $26.96 USD: http://www.amazon.com/Digital-video-television-Ioannis-Pitas/dp/9609156444/ (or
£17.92 GBP or €21.85 EUR in the respective Amazon Europe sites). Distributor:
Createspace/Amazon, ISBN-13:
978-9609156448, 1st
Edition, paperback: 340 pages, dimensions: 6" x 9" (15.24 x 22.86
cm). Prof.
Ioannis Pitas (IEEE fellow, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, EURASIP fellow) works
on digital media at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He
has (co)-authored 9 books, 39 book chapters and 690 papers, 39 books in
image/video processing. He has been many times invited speaker, associate editor
and General or Technical Chair of 5 conferences. He participated in 67
R&D projects and has 16500+ citations and H-index 62+ (2013). Chapter
contents: INTRODUCTION
TO DIGITAL VIDEO: Video basics, analog and digital video formats. DIGITAL
VIDEO ACQUISITION: Image formation/acquisition, digital video camera, image
distortions, video quality. HUMAN
VISUAL PERCEPTION: Human eye anatomy, human vision modeling, color theory,
stereopsis. VIDEO
PROCESSING: Video quality enhancement, transforms, filtering, format
conversion. VIDEO
ANALYSIS: Motion estimation, face/object detection and recognition, image
segmentation, object tracking. VIDEO
PRODUCTION: Pre-production, camera movement, lighting issues, shot types,
camera calibration, 3D scene reconstruction, computer generated imagery (CGI),
Digital video editing and manipulation, 3DTV production/post-production. VIDEO
COMPRESSION: Transform-based video compression, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, HEVC
standards. DIGITAL
TELEVISION BROADCASTING: Channel coding, modulation, terrestrial and satellite
transmission, High Definition TV (HDTV), mobile TV. DVB-T/S/C/H, ATSC-T/C-M/H,
ISDB standards. MEDIA
STREAMING: Media streaming technology, encoders and servers, communication
issues, streaming file formats, media players (Real Player, Windows Media
Player, QuickTime media player, Flash player), videoconferencing over IP. DIGITAL
VIDEO INTERFACE STANDARDS: High-definition multimedia interface (HDMI), digital
visual interface (DVI). DIGITAL
VIDEO PERIPHERAL DEVICES: DVD/Blu-ray optical discs, video projectors, display
monitors (LCD/Plasma). DIGITAL
CINEMA: Digital cinema standardization, digital cinema post-production, digital
movie distribution and playback. THREE-DIMENSIONAL
DIGITAL TELEVISION: 3DTV image capture, 3DTV video formats, 3DTV compression
and broadcasting, 3DTV display technologies, 3DTV market. VIDEO
STORAGE, SEARCH AND RETRIEVAL: Spatiotemporal video description, multimodal
audiovisual description, MPEG-7 standard and profiles, video annotation,
audiovisual archiving, indexing and retrieval, media asset management (MAM)
systems.
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