Böcker av K. S. Thyagarajan

Conveying the principles in digital image processing, this book provides the background theory and the practical applications to various industries, such as digital cinema, video compression, and streaming media. It shows the role of human vision in image visualization; contains the MATLAB codes used to generate most of the figures; and more.

This book describes the principles of image and video compression techniques and introduces current and popular compression standards, such as the MPEG series. Derivations of relevant compression algorithms are developed in an easy-to-follow fashion. Numerous examples are provided in each chapter to illustrate the concepts.

Fiber Optic Essentials starts with a basic discussion on lightwaves and the phenomenon of refraction and reflection. It then goes on to introduces the reader to the field of fiber optics and covers some of the recent developments, such as fiber amplifiers, dispersion compensation and nonlinear effects.