Download or read book Digital Compression for Multimedia written by Jerry D. Gibson and published by Morgan Kaufmann. This book was released on 1998-01-15 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Digital Compression for Multimedia" captures in a single reference the current standards for speech, audio, video, image, fax and file compression. It is intended for engineers and computer scientists designing and implementing compression techniques, system integrators, technical managers, and researchers. The essential ideas and motivation behind the various compression methods are presented and insight is provided into the evolution of the standards.