Study Questions

You should be able to answer each of the following questions.

  1. How does work in CS relate to this field?
  2. What is the role of DCT and how does it apply to large images? What other image compressions schemes are comparable to it, and which may yield even higher compression ratios?
  3. How does the JPEG standard support needs for users to maintain good quality and yet achieve impressive degrees of compression?
  4. How does JPEG relate to color spaces?
  5. How does MPEG work and how does it build upon JPEG?
  6. How does DVI technology work: what software has and is involved, how much are audio and video compressed, and what are the two main qualities of DVI compression supported?
  7. How does Fluent Machines' approach differ from DVI's with AVK?
  8. How does having a faster DVI processor help improve performance and flexibility in terms of co-processor scheduling and memory bitmap copying?
  9. What is the difference between CD-I and DVI, and what are the main contributions of each?
  10. What is the scope for each of the important new standards: JPEG, MPEG, px64, HyTime?


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Tue Nov 22 01:33:56 EST 1994