Digital Video Concepts, Methods, and Metrics: Quality, Compression, Performance, and Power Trade-off Analysis

Acknowledgments

All praises and thanks belong to Allah, the Lord of the worlds, the Beneficent, the Merciful. First and foremost, I thank Allah, who enabled me to undertake an endeavor of this extent. It was a great journey for me—quite an experience on an unfamiliar path. This work would not have been complete without the help and support of many individuals, and I am grateful to all of them.

I am indebted to Scott Janus, who reviewed the contents of this book and provided valuable early feedback. After completing the book I began to realize just how much I had learned from him.

Thanks are due to my manager Wael Ashmawi, who not only allowed me all the opportunities to write but also supported me in various meetings with the operations team. ...