Front Cover -- Digital Video and HD -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1: Introduction -- 1. Raster images -- Aspect ratio -- Geometry -- Image capture -- Digitization -- Perceptual uniformity -- Colour -- Luma and colour difference components -- Digital image representation -- SD and HD -- Square sampling -- Comparison of aspect ratios -- Aspect ratio -- Frame rates -- 2. Image acquisition and presentation -- Image state -- EOCF standards -- Entertainment programming -- Acquisition -- Consumer origination -- Consumer electronics (CE) display -- 3. Linear-light and perceptual uniformity -- Contrast -- Contrast ratio -- Perceptual uniformity -- The "code 100" problem and nonlinear image coding -- Linear and nonlinear -- 4. Quantization -- Linearity -- Decibels -- Noise, signal, sensitivity -- Quantization error -- Full-swing -- Studio-swing (footroom and headroom) -- Interface offset -- Processing coding -- Two's complement wrap-around -- 5. Contrast, brightness, contrast, and brightness -- Perceptual attributes -- History of display signal processing -- Digital driving levels -- Relationship between signal and lightness -- Algorithm -- Black level setting -- Effect of contrast and brightness on contrast and brightness -- An alternate interpretation -- Brightness and contrast controls in LCDs -- Brightness and contrast controls in PDPs -- Brightness and contrast controls in desktop graphics -- 6. Raster images in computing -- Symbolic image description -- Raster images -- Conversion among types -- Image files -- "Resolution" in computer graphics -- 7. Image structure -- Image reconstruction -- Sampling aperture -- Spot profile -- Box distribution -- Gaussian distribution -- 8. Raster scanning -- Flicker, refresh rate, and frame rate -- Introduction to scanning -- Scanning parameters.

Interlaced format -- Twitter -- Interlace and progressive -- Scanning notation -- Motion portrayal -- Segmented-frame (24PsF) -- Video system taxonomy -- Conversion among systems -- 9. Resolution -- Magnitude frequency response and bandwidth -- Visual acuity -- Viewing distance and angle -- Kell effect -- Resolution -- Resolution in video -- Viewing distance -- Interlace revisited -- 10. Constant luminance -- The principle of constant luminance -- Compensating for the CRT -- Departure from constant luminance -- Luma -- "Leakage" of luminance into chroma -- 11. Picture rendering -- Surround effect -- Tone scale alteration -- Incorporation of rendering -- Rendering in desktop computing -- 12. Introduction to luma and chroma -- Luma -- Sloppy use of the term luminance -- Colour difference coding (chroma) -- Chroma subsampling -- Chroma subsampling notation -- Chroma subsampling filters -- Chroma in composite NTSC and PAL -- 13. Introduction to component SD -- Scanning standards -- Widescreen (16:9) SD -- Square and nonsquare sampling -- Resampling -- 14. Introduction to composite NTSC and PAL -- NTSC and PAL encoding -- NTSC and PAL decoding -- S-video interface -- Frequency interleaving -- Composite analog SD -- 15. Introduction to HD -- HD scanning -- Colour coding for BT.709 HD -- 16. Introduction to video compression -- Data compression -- Image compression -- Lossy compression -- JPEG -- Motion-JPEG -- JPEG 2000 -- Mezzanine compression -- MPEG -- Picture coding types (I, P, B) -- Reordering -- MPEG-1 -- MPEG-2 -- Other MPEGs -- MPEG IMX -- MPEG-4 -- H.264 -- AVC-Intra -- WM9, WM10, VC-1 codecs -- Compression for CE acquisition -- HDV -- AVCHD -- Compression for IP transport to consumers -- VP8 ("WebM") codec -- Dirac (basic) -- 17. Streams and files -- Historical overview -- Physical layer -- Stream interfaces -- IEEE 1394 (FireWire, i.LINK).

HTTP live streaming (HLS) -- 18. Metadata -- Metadata Example 1: CD-DA -- Metadata Example 2: .yuv files -- Metadata Example 3: RFF -- Metadata Example 4: JPEG/JFIF -- Metadata Example 5: Sequence display extension -- Conclusions -- 19. Stereoscopic ("3-D") video -- Acquisition -- S3D display -- Anaglyph -- Temporal multiplexing -- Polarization -- Wavelength multiplexing (Infitec/Dolby) -- Autostereoscopic displays -- Parallax barrier display -- Lenticular display -- Recording and compression -- Consumer interface and display -- Ghosting -- Vergence and accommodation -- Part 2: Theory -- 20. Filtering and sampling -- Sampling theorem -- Sampling at exactly 0.5fS -- Magnitude frequency response -- Magnitude frequency response of a boxcar -- The sinc weighting function -- Frequency response of point sampling -- Fourier transform pairs -- Analog filters -- Digital filters -- Impulse response -- Finite impulse response (FIR) filters -- Physical realizability of a filter -- Phase response (group delay) -- Infinite impulse response (IIR) filters -- Lowpass filter -- Digital filter design -- Reconstruction -- Reconstruction close to 0.5fS -- "(sin x)/x" correction -- Further reading -- 21. Resampling, interpolation,and decimation -- 2:1 downsampling -- Oversampling -- Interpolation -- Lagrange interpolation -- Lagrange interpolation as filtering -- Polyphase interpolators -- Polyphase taps and phases -- Implementing polyphase interpolators -- Decimation -- Lowpass filtering in decimation -- 22. Image digitization and reconstruction -- Spatial frequency domain -- Comb filtering -- Spatial filtering -- Image presampling filters -- Image reconstruction filters -- Spatial (2-D) oversampling -- 23. Perception and visual acuity -- Retina -- Adaptation -- Contrast sensitivity -- Contrast sensitivity function (CSF) -- 24. Luminance and lightness.

Radiance, intensity -- Luminance -- Relative luminance -- Luminance from red, green, and blue -- Lightness (CIE L*) -- 25. The CIE system of colorimetry -- Fundamentals of vision -- Definitions -- Spectral power distribution (SPD) and tristimulus -- Spectral constraints -- CIE XYZ tristimulus -- CIE [x, y] chromaticity -- Blackbody radiation -- Colour temperature -- White -- Chromatic adaptation -- Perceptually uniform colour spaces -- CIE L*a*b* (CIELAB) -- CIE L*u*v* and CIE L*a*b* summary -- Colour specification and colour image coding -- Further reading -- 26. Colour science for video -- Additive reproduction (RGB) -- Characterization of RGB primaries -- BT.709 primaries -- Leggacy SD primaries -- sRGB system -- SMPTE Free Scale (FS) primaries -- AMPAS ACES primaries -- SMPTE/DCI P3 primaries -- CMFs and SPDs -- Normalization and scaling -- Luminance coefficients -- Transformations between RGB and CIE XYZ -- Noise due to matrixing -- Transforms among RGB systems -- Camera white reference -- Display white reference -- Gamut -- Wide-gamut reproduction -- Free Scale Gamut, Free Scale Log (FS-Gamut, FS-Log) -- Further reading -- 27. Gamma -- Gamma in CRT physics -- The amazing coincidence! -- Gamma in video -- Opto-electronic conversion functions (OECFs) -- BT.709 OECF -- SMPTE 240M OECF -- sRGB transfer function -- Transfer functions in SD -- Bit depth requirements -- Gamma in modern display devices -- Estimating gamma -- Gamma in video, CGI, and Macintosh -- Gamma in computer graphics -- Gamma in pseudocolour -- Limitations of 8-bit linear coding -- Linear and nonlinear coding in CGI -- 28. Luma and colour differences -- Colour acuity -- RGB and R'G'B' colour cubes -- Conventional luma/colour difference coding -- Luminance and luma notation -- Nonlinear red, green, blue (R'G'B') -- BT.601 luma -- BT.709 luma -- Chroma subsampling, revisited.

Luma/colour difference summary -- SD and HD luma chaos -- Luma/colour difference component sets -- Part 3 : Practical matters -- 29. Component video colour coding for SD -- B'-Y', R'-Y' components for SD -- PBPR components for SD -- CBCR components for SD -- Y'CBCR from studio RGB -- Y'CBCR from computer RGB -- "Full-swing" Y'CBCR -- Y'UV, Y'IQ confusion -- 30.Component video colour coding for HD -- B'-Y', R'-Y' components for BT.709 HD -- PBPR components for BT.709 HD -- CBCR components for BT.709 HD -- CBCR components for xvYCC -- Y'CBCR from studio RGB -- Y'CBCR from computer RGB -- Conversions between HD and SD -- Colour coding standards -- 31. Video signal processing -- Edge treatment -- Transition samples -- Picture lines -- Choice of SAL and SPW parameters -- Video levels -- Setup (pedestal) -- BT.601 to computing -- Enhancement -- Median filtering -- Coring -- Chroma transition improvement (CTI) -- Mixing and keying -- 32. Frame, field, line, and sample rates -- Field rate -- Line rate -- Sound subcarrier -- Addition of composite colour -- NTSC colour subcarrier -- 576i PAL colour subcarrier -- 4fSC sampling -- Common sampling rate -- Numerology of HD scanning -- Audio rates -- 33. Timecode -- Introduction -- Dropframe timecode -- Editing -- Linear timecode (LTC) -- Vertical interval timecode (VITC) -- Timecode structure -- Further reading -- 34. 2-3 pulldown -- 2-3-3-2 pulldown -- Conversion of film to different frame rates -- Native 24 Hz coding -- Conversion to other rates -- 35. Deinterlacing -- Spatial domain -- Vertical-temporal domain -- Motion adaptivity -- Further reading -- 36. Colourbars -- SD colourbars -- SD colourbar notation -- Pluge element -- Composite decoder adjustment using colourbars -- -I, +Q, and Pluge elements in SD colourbars -- HD colourbars -- Part 4 : Studio standards.

37. Reference display and viewing conditions.