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		Image from Amazon.com	Digital video compression / Peter Symes by Symes, Peter Material type: Text; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Specialized; Publication details: New York, N.Y. : McGraw-Hill, c2004 Availability: Items available for loan: BU Library and Learning Space (1)Call number: TK6680.5 S953D. Found in Open Library: Place hold Save to lists Add to cart (remove)
			Digital compression of still images and video by Clarke, Roger J Material type: Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: London : Academic Press, 1995 Availability: Items available for loan: BU Library and Learning Space (1)Call number: TK5105.2 C527D. Place hold Save to lists Add to cart (remove)
		Image from Amazon.com	Mathematics of digital images : creation, compression, restoration, recognition / S. G. Hoggar by Hoggar, S. G Material type: Text; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Specialized; Publication details: Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2006 Availability: Items available for loan: BU Library and Learning Space (1)Call number: T385 H633M. Found in Open Library: Place hold Save to lists Add to cart (remove)
		Local cover image Image from Amazon.com	Advances in imaging and electron physics Vol.119, Aspects of Image Processing and Compression [electronic resource] / edited by Peter W Hawkes. by Hawkes, Peter W [ed.] Material type: Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Publication details: San Diego : Academic Press, ©2001 Other title: Imaging and electron physics Online resources: Electronic Resources Availability: No items available. Found in Open Library: Save to lists Add to cart (remove)
		Image from Amazon.com	JPEG2000 : image compression fundamentals, standards and practice / David S. Tauman, Michael W. Marcellin by Taubman, David S Marcellin, Michael W Series: The Springer international series in engineering and computer science Material type: Text; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Specialized; Publication details: New York, N.Y. : Springer, c2002 Availability: Items available for loan: BU Library and Learning Space (1)Call number: TK6680.5 T382J. Found in Open Library: Place hold Save to lists Add to cart (remove)
		Image from Amazon.com	Managing gigabytes : compressing and indexing documents and images / Ian H. Witten, Alistair Moffat, Timothy C. Bell by Witten, Ian H Moffat, Alistair Bell, Timothy C Series: The Morgan Kaufmann series in multimedia information and systems Edition: 2nd ed. Material type: Text; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Specialized; Publication details: San Francisco, Calif. : Morgan Kaufmann, c1999 Availability: Items available for loan: BU Library and Learning Space (2)Call number: TA1637 W577M 1999, ... Found in Open Library: Place hold Save to lists Add to cart (remove)
			Handbook of visual communications by Hang, Hseuh-Ming, ed Woods, John W., ed Material type: Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: San Diego, Calif. : Academic Press, 1995 Availability: Items available for loan: BU Library and Learning Space (1)Call number: TK5105.2 H363H. Place hold Save to lists Add to cart (remove)
		Local cover image Image from Amazon.com	Handbook of image and video processing [electronic resource] / editor, Al Bovik. by Bovik, Alan C. (Alan Conrad), 1958- [ed.] Edition: 2nd ed. Material type: Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: Amsterdam : Elsevier Academic Press, 2005 Other title: Image and video processing Online resources: Electronic Resources Availability: No items available. Found in Open Library: Save to lists Add to cart (remove)
		Image from Amazon.com	Handbook of image and video processing / editor Al Bovik by Bovik, Al [ed.] Series: Academic Press series in communications, networking and multimedia Material type: Text; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Specialized; Publication details: San Diego, Calif. : Academic Press, c2000 Availability: Items available for loan: BU Library and Learning Space (1)Call number: TA1637 H362. Found in Open Library: Place hold Save to lists Add to cart (remove)
			Managing gigabytes : compressing and indexing documents and images / Ian H. Witten, Alistair Moffat, Timothy C. Bell by Witten, Ian H Moffat, Alistair Bell, Timothy C Material type: Text; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: General; Publication details: New York, N.Y. : Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1994 Availability: Items available for loan: BU Library and Learning Space (1)Call number: TA1637 W577M. Place hold Save to lists Add to cart (remove)
		Image from Amazon.com	Compressed image file formats : JPEG, PNG, GIF, XBM, BMP by Miano, John Material type: Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 2000 Availability: Items available for loan: BU Library and Learning Space (1)Call number: TA1637 M526C. Found in Open Library: Place hold Save to lists Add to cart (remove)