This book is the most up-to-date introduction to digital video and television. It is very suitable to university/college/arts students and video enthusiasts, by providing an accurate presentation, without too many mathematical/technical details. It covers all technologies related to video shooting/acquisition, editing, compression, optical storage, broadcasting and display. To this end, various video compression methods (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, HEVC) and broadcasting systems (ATSC, DVB, DTMB, ISDB) are overviewed. Novel trends in video streaming, webcasting and mobile video are presented. An overview of the latest trends in production, post-production and visual effects is presented for movie and TV content creation. Human perception of video and quality enhancement through video processing are detailed. Video analysis, description and archiving for fast video search are overviewed. Finally, novel trends in 3DTV and digital cinema are presented.

Author Biography

Ioannis Pitas, IEEE fellow, received the Diploma and PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, both from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Since 1994, he has been a Professor at the Department of Informatics of the same University. He served as a Visiting Professor at several Universities. His current interests are in the areas of intelligent digital media, image/video processing (2D/3D) and human-centered interfaces. He has published over 700 papers, contributed in 39 books in his areas of interest and edited or (co-)authored another 9 books. He has been invited speaker and/or member of the program committee of many scientific conferences and workshops. In the past, he served as Associate Editor or co-Editor of eight international journals and he was General or Technical Chair of four international conferences (including ICIP2001). He participated in 67 R&D projects on digital media, primarily funded by the European Union and is/was principal investigator/researcher in 40 such projects. He has 16500+ citations to his work and h-index 63+ (2013).

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