Decode to Encode: Master Complex Concepts Faster, Bridge Gaps and Be the Expert in Video Coding

The book covers the evolution of video encoding standards and provides a clear understanding of the fundamentals of video compression. Coming from a technology background and having worked in companies that work on imaging and video, I can attest that this book will be useful for any student or professional trying to understand how video compression works.

The book covers the fundamental concepts of video encoding in a clear manner. It should be a great resource for any one who wants to understand various video compression standards and how they work

I liked this book, although the quality of the printing and book-binding merit no more than one star (pages falling out, text running diagonally across the page). IMHO, Iain Richardson's Video Codec Design : Developing Image And Video Compression Systems is a better book, but that book is very out of date (you need to search for RICHARDS as the author to find it by the way). This book covers the state of the art (well, ish) and is cheaper too.

I received this book as a prize, and have found it very useful to reinforce some concepts I knew and learn newer ones. It covers the basics of video compression, and also has additional chapters that deals with the emerging topics that lie on the periphery of video codecs.The book is written with the idea that the reader has minimal knowledge of linear algebra, and image/video processing. If you are having a hard time connecting the dots and understanding the big picture, this would be a good place to start.I wish I had this book 3-5 years ago.

This is an excellent book for beginners which helps you grab the video compression concepts quickly without trying to go in-depth which exhausts you at the end of the day. For developers this helps and provides the bare bones to their projects, an added plus is a plenty of colorful illustrations. Rate Distortion and Arithmetic Encoding topics were a great read. Kudos to the other to articulate in clear terms, would highly recommend this book for folks working/want to work with video compression.

This book is a wonderful introduction for anyone who wants to learn how video compression technologies work, explaining concepts like entropy coding, inter-prediction, and adaptive quantization with simple text and very helpful diagrams and images. It should be the first book that any aspiring codec developer reads and is a great resource for anyone who wants to understand codec operation at a very deep level. Really appreciate the summaries and notes with resources at the end of each chapter.

This is an excellent book for beginners who are starting to learn video compression. This book starts with basics explaining the technical details with number of images and diagrams for ease of understanding. This covers a wide variety of video related topics including recent advances in video codecs and standards. I have been working in this field for many years and I found this book to be very refreshing. This is now part of my book collection.

Good for anyone exploring the possibility of getting into video compression...this book will help the readers get foundational understanding of fairly technical concepts. Recommend this as a good quick read before one gets into more technical and nuanced stuff.

This book is an excellent introductory text for video compression users and implementors. It gives a good context for video compression covering the evolution of video compression and state of art in video compression. The video coding technology used in industry is complex and sophisticated but the author has done a wonderful job of providing of simple explanation of important topics in video compression like Motion Estimation, Rate Distortion and Arithmetic Encoding. The author has done good comparison of current generation of codecs. I liked that author was able to cover new ideas and applications like Machine Learning and 360 video. I recommend this book for everyone working with video compression.

It does not go too in-depth, but it gives a good overview of the techniques and different approaches for video compression, allowing the reader to grasp the concepts and continue investigating the details elsewhere.

This book really breaks down the key concepts for people with varying degrees of knowledge. I worked in the industry for many years and wish I had something like this.

This book can be helpful if you've never heard about videocodecs. The most of topics are superficial, a page or a half of page where the author gives definition and a couple of words about principles of work. The quality of paper and printing is good, a plenty of colorful illustrations (even more than necessary), large font. So the book is short and mostly is overview. If you've read any book about this topic early (as me) you don't find much inside.