CHAPTER 2

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Digital Video Compression Techniques

Digital video plays a central role in today’s communication, information consumption, entertainment and educational approaches, and has enormous economic and sociocultural impacts on everyday life. In the first decade of the 21st century, the profound dominance of video as an information medium on modern life—from digital television to Skype, DVD to Blu-ray, and YouTube to Netflix–has been well established. Owing to the enormous amount of data required to represent digital video, it is necessary to compress the video data for practical transmission and communication, storage, and streaming applications. ...

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