Algorithms give computers step-by-step instructions to complete tasks accurately.Good algorithms improve software speed, ...

Digital video coding integrates algorithmic techniques and standardised frameworks to reduce the volume of raw pixel data while preserving perceived visual quality. Most contemporary systems employ a ...

Maya Angelou once said, "You can't really know where you are going until you know where you have been," and so it is with per-title encoding. What began as a one-dimensional data rate adjustment that ...

Java 8 will be remembered mainly for introducing lambdas, streams, a new date/time model, and the Nashorn JavaScript engine to Java. Some will also remember Java 8 for introducing various small but ...

Lossy compression schemes can be based on a source model, as in the case of speech compression, or a user or sink model, as is somewhat the case in image compression. In this chapter we look at audio ...