Book announcement - "High-Quality Visual Experience"

Mrak, Marta; Grgic, Mislav; Kunt, Murat (Eds.)

1st Edition., 2010, X, 550 p. 164 illus. in color., Hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-642-12801-1

Abstract: Last few years have seen rapid acceptance of high-definition television (HDTV) technology around the world. This technology has been hugely successful in delivering more realistic television experience at home and accurate imaging for professional applications. Adoption of high definition continues to grow as consumers demand enhanced features and greater quality of content. Following this trend, natural evolution of visualisation technologies will be in the direction of fully realistic visual experience and highly precise imaging. However, using the content of even higher resolution and quality is not straightforward as such videos require significantly higher access bandwidth and more processing power. Therefore, methods for radical reduction of video bandwidth are crucial for realisation of high visual quality. Moreover, it is desirable to look into other ways of accessing visual content, solution to which lies in innovative schemes for content delivery and consumption. This book presents selected chapters covering technologies that will enable greater flexibility in video content representation and allow users to access content from any device and to interact with it.

Keywords » 3D Visual Experience - High Dynamic Range Video - High-Dimensional Video Signals - Super Resolution - Ultra High Definition Content Generation - Visual Experience

Table of Contents:

Part I: Quality of Visual Information

• Automatic Prediction of Perceptual Video Quality: Recent Trends and Research Directions by Anush K. Moorthy, Alan C. Bovik
• Quality of Experience for High Definition Presentations – Case: Digital Cinema by Andrew Perkis, Fitri N. Rahayu, Ulrich Reiter, Junyong You, Touradj Ebrahimi
• Quality of Visual Experience for 3D Presentation – Stereoscopic Image by Junyong You, Gangyi Jiang, Liyuan Xing, Andrew Perkis

Part II: Video Coding for High Resolutions

• The Development and Standardization of Ultra High Definition Video Technology by Tokumichi Murakami
• Compression Formats for HD Recording and Production by Joeri Barbarien, Marc Jacobs, Adrian Munteanu
• Super Hi-Vision and Its Encoding System by Shinichi Sakaida
• A Flexible Super High Resolution Video CODEC and Its Trial Experiments by Takeshi Yoshitome, Ken Nakamura, Kazuto Kamikura
• Mathematical Modeling for High Frame-Rate Video Signal by Yukihiro Bandoh, Seishi Takamura, Hirohisa Jozawa, Yoshiyuki Yashima

Part III: Visual Content Upscaling

• Next Generation Frame Rate Conversion Algorithms by Osman Serdar Gedik, Engin Turetken, Abdullah Aydın Alatan
• Spatiotemporal Video Upscaling Using Motion- Assisted Steering Kernel (MASK) Regression by Hiroyuki Takeda, Peter van Beek, Peyman Milanfar
• Temporal Super Resolution Using Variational Methods by Sune Høgild Keller, Fran ̧cois Lauze, Mads Nielsen
• Synthesizing Natural Images Using Spatial Layout Information by Ling Shao, Ruoyun Gao

Part IV: 3D Visual Content Processing and Displaying

• The Use of Color Information in Stereo Vision Processing by Wided Miled, Beatrice Pesquet-Popescu
• 3D Object Classification and Segmentation Methods by Martin Zagar, Mario Kovac, Josip Knezovic, Hrvoje Mlinaric, Daniel Hofman
• Three-Dimensional Video Contents Exploitation in Depth Camera-Based Hybrid Camera System by Sung-Yeol Kim, Andreas Koschan, Mongi A. Abidi, Yo-Sung Ho
• Improving 3D Visual Experience by Controlling the Perceived Depth Distortion by Jessica Prevoteau, Sylvia Chalencon-Piotin, Didier Debons, Laurent Lucas, Yannick Remion
• 3D Visual Experience by Peter Tamas Kovacs, Tibor Balogh
• 3D Holoscopic Imaging Technology for Real- Time Volume Processing and Display by Amar Aggoun

Part V: Accessing Technologies for Visual Content

• Video Streaming with Interactive Pan/Tilt/Zoom by Aditya Mavlankar, Bernd Girod
• End-to-End Management of Heterogeneous Environments Enabling Quality of Experience by Christian Timmerer, Maria Teresa Andrade, Alberto Leon Martin
• Quality-Driven Coding and Prioritization of 3D Video over Wireless Networks by Sabih Nasir, Chaminda T.E.R. Hewage, Zaheer Ahmad, Marta Mrak, Stewart Worrall, Ahmet Kondoz
• Scalable Indexing of HD Video by Jenny Benois-Pineau, Sandrine Anthoine, Claire Morand, Jean- Philippe Domenger, Eric Debreuve, Wafa Bel Haj Ali, Paulo Piro
• Stereo Correspondence in Information Retrieval by Huiyu Zhou, Abdul H. Sadka

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