Audiovisual Telecommunications [Hardcover]

This book covers the evolving telecommunications technology which will allow the telecoms network to carry sound, vision, text and computer signals. It examines both the equipment available today and the future possibilities raised by recent developments.Contributors. Preface. Audiovisual telecommunications. Broadcast TV systems. Television of improved quality. A NICAM digital stereophonic encoder. Videophony. Multipoint audiovisual telecommunications. Infrastructure standards for digital audiovisual systems. Practical low bit-rate codecs. Variable bit-rate video coding for asynchronous transfer mode networks. Standardization by Iso/MPEG of digital video coding for storage applications. Model-based image coding. Head boundary location using snakes. Image data compression using fractal techniques. Artificial neural nets for image processing in visual telecoms: a review and case study. Index.