Image and Video Coding

Due to the vast amount of data associated with images and video, compression is a key technology for their transmission and storage. The availability and demand for images and video continue to outpace increases in network capacity. Hence, the importance of compression is not likely to diminish, in spite of the promises of unlimited bandwidth. Compression takes advantage of the structure of images and video, especially of the statistical redundancy inherent in such signals. It can also exploit the limitations of human visual perception to omit components of the signal that will not be noticed.