**Meet the editor**

Dr. Amal gained his BE, specializing in Electronics and Telecommunication with honours in 1986, ME from the Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands in digital video signal processing. Amal has worked in both academia and industry over the past twenty-seven years, including as a research engineer at the national television in Sri Lanka. In 1994 he became a senior lec-

turer at the University of Moratuwa, and then joined Massey University. His Ph.D was on framework for rapid evaluation of image and video compression artefacts objectively. His current research interests are objective assessment of compression artefacts and image processing for surveillance, distributed video coding, routing algorithms, cooperative communication for next generation networks, IPTV and its Quality of experience, implementation of signal processing algorithms in FPGA, signal processing for precision agriculture, multimedia communication and care of the elderly. Amal is a registered, chartered professional engineer, ITU-Expert, Senior Broadcast Consultant, fellow-IET, a professional member of IPENZ and a life member of the Sri Lanka Association for Advancement of Science. In 2000 he was awarded the Wimalasurendra award in recognition of the contribution he made to the broadcasting development by the Institution of Engineers Sri Lanka.

Contents

**Preface VII** 

Chapter 1 **Compressive Video Coding:** 

Chapter 2 **Mobile Video Communications Based** 

Chapter 3 **Quantifying Interpretability Loss** 

**Part 2 Motion Estimation 55** 

Xueming Qian

**Part 3 Quality 101** 

**due to Image Compression 35**  John M. Irvine and Steven A. Israel

Chapter 4 **H.264 Motion Estimation and Applications 57** 

Matei Mancas, Dominique De Beul, Nicolas Riche and Xavier Siebert

Chapter 7 **Video Quality Assessment 129**  Juan Pedro López Velasco

Chapter 5 **Global Motion Estimation and Its Applications 83** 

Chapter 6 **Human Attention Modelization and Data Reduction 103** 

**A Review of the State-Of-The-Art 3** 

**on Fast DVC to H.264 Transcoding 15** 

Jose Luis Martinez and Francisco Jose Quiles

Alberto Corrales Garcia, Gerardo Fernandez Escribano,

Murali E. Krishnan, E. Gangadharan and Nirmal P. Kumar

Muhammad Yousuf Baig, Edmund M-K. Lai and Amal Punchihewa

**Part 1 Compression 1** 
