ENSC 424: Interesting Links and References

The following is a list of web-links and books/articles that provide further information on material related to this course. Please send me additional items that you come up with and I will add them to the list.

Supplementary Books

• I. Richardson, H.264 and MPEG-4 Video Compression: Video Coding for next-generation multimedia , Wiley, 2003.
• R. Steinmetz and K. Nahrstadt, Multimedia: Computing, Communications and Applications, Prentice Hall, 1995.
• R. Rao, Techniques and Standards for Image, Video and Audio Coding, Prentice Hall, 1996.
• F. Fluckiger, Understanding Networked Multimedia, Prentice Hall, 1995.
• J. Buford (ed.), Multimedia Systems, Addison-Wesley, 1994.
• M. Schwartz, Broadband Integrated Digital Networks, Prentice Hall, 1996.
• M. Tekalp, Digital Video Processing, Prentice Hall, 1995.

Networking Links

• background on IPv6 - the next generation Internet.
• RSVP tutorial

Multimedia Links

• to be added

Multimedia Courses

• ZeNian Li's (SFU CMPT)CMPT 365 "Multimedia Systems" course. Includes lecture notes.

Source Coding Links

• An interactive learning tool for image and video compression from Delft University in the Netherlands.
• Arithmetic Coding by Mark Nelson.
• Data Compression by Debra A. Lelewer and Daniel S. Hirschberg
• JPEG2000 information.
• MPEG4 open source, open streaming
• H.264 tutorial from LSI Logic - the next generation video codec.
• FBI Uses Wavelets to Compress Fingerprints
• a clearing house for wavelets
• a wavelet page - a tutorial
• roadmap to MPEG resources
• the story of Lena - a standard image in processing/compression
• A project on audio compression using wavelets with some MATLAB code.
• An auditory toolbox for MATLAB.
• speech coding overview
• speech links