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University of Luebeck
Summer 2010


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References

The recommended readings are not mandatory, but will make life much easier in the examination. Nevertheless, the questions will only cover topics that have been presented in the slide set during the lecture. The additional readings are for those, who are interested to dive deeper into some of the fields.
Please also consider the references given in the lecture slides for the specific topics.

Last Update: April 26, 2010

Books

Claude E. Shannon, Warren Weaver
The Mathematical Theory of Communication
University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago, 1949. Paperback reprint 1998.
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Every computer scientist should have read it once.

R. M. Fano
Transmission of Information,
MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. USA, 1949.
Randall Packer and Ken Jordan
multiMEDIA - From Wagner to Virtual Reality
Norton, New York, 2001.  Amazon

This great book gives you a flavour of Multimedia Technology usage in the last 100 years!

Lajos Hanzo, F. Clare, A. Somerville, Jason P. Woodard
Voice Compression and Communications.
Principles and Applications for Fixed and Wireless Channels.
IEEE Press, New York, 2001, 672 pages.  IEEE Press

This book is covering speech compression at a very deep and exhaustive level.
Warning: For the really interested persons only!

David Salomon and Giovanni Motta
Handbook of Data Compression.
Springer, New York, 2010, 1361 pages.  Springer

Equally comprehensive as Hanzo et al., but also covering image and video compression.

John Watkinson
The MPEG Handbook.
Focal Press, 2nd Ed. 2004, 1361 pages.  Amazon

Getting slowly older, but one of the major books covering the MPEG family.

Ian Richardson.
The H.264 Advanced Video Compression Standard.
Wiley, 2010, 352 pages.  Amazon

Brand new book from the author of "H.264 and MPEG-4 Video Compression: Video Coding for Next Generation Multimedia", which was quite OK. I have not seen this new one yet (appears in June).

Ken C. Pohlmann
Principles of Digital Audio
McGrawHill, New York, 5th Edition, 2005.  Amazon

This is a great book about audio with very introductional sections which can also go deep into the stuff, but are always nice to read. Really recommendable. A new edition will appear in October 2010.
Important: Chapter 10 - Perceptual Coding (pp. 303-362), Chapter 15 - Internet Radio (pp. 509-540), Chapter 16 - Digital Radio and Television Broadcasting (pp. 541-592).


Paper

David A. Huffman
A Method for the Construction of Minimum-Redundancy Codes,
Proceedings of the I.R.E., September 1952, 1098-1101.
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J. Rissanen, G.G. Langdon Jr.
Arithmetic Coding,
IBM Journal of Research and Development, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 135-149, 1979.
Norbert Goertz
Joint source-channel coding of discrete-time signals with continuous amplitudes,
World Scientific, 2007.
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