Kwong Lap-ming. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 101-[104]). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter 1 --- Introduction to Image Communication --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Existing Approach improving Image Communication --- p.8 / Chapter 1.1.1 --- Data Compression --- p.8 / Chapter 1.1.2 --- Progressive Image Transmission --- p.10 / Chapter 2 --- Review of Progressive Image Transmission Methods --- p.13 / Chapter 2.1 --- Pyramidal Image Coding --- p.14 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- Expansive Image Pyramid --- p.15 / Chapter 2.1.2 --- Non-Expansive Image Pyramid --- p.18 / Chapter 2.1.3 --- Pros and Cons of Pyramidal Data Structure --- p.19 / Chapter 2.2 --- Hierarchical Data Structure with Bit Plane Transmission --- p.20 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Bitwise Condensed Quadtree method (BCQ)[6] --- p.21 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Progressive Transmission of Full-Search VQ[7] --- p.25 / Chapter 2.2.3 --- Pros and Cons of Hierarchical Data Structure with Bit Plane Transmission --- p.26 / Chapter 2.3 --- Embedded Transform Coding --- p.27 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- SPIHT method [16] --- p.27 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- Embedded DCT Method [13] --- p.30 / Chapter 2.3.3 --- Pros and Cons of Embedded Transform Coding --- p.31 / Chapter 2.4 --- Summary --- p.32 / Chapter 3 --- Progressive Refinement of Colormapped Image --- p.34 / Chapter 3.1 --- Colormapped Image --- p.36 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- Pros and Cons of the Usage of Colormapped Image --- p.37 / Chapter 3.2 --- Progressive Refinement in both Spatial and Contrast Resolutions --- p.38 / Chapter 4 --- The Design of Progressive Refinement of Colormapped Image --- p.42 / Chapter 4.1 --- The Scalar Quantization in the YCrCb color space --- p.44 / Chapter 4.1.1 --- The Color Space for Color Quantization --- p.44 / Chapter 4.1.2 --- Color Quantization --- p.44 / Chapter 4.1.3 --- The Order of Quantization --- p.47 / Chapter 4.1.4 --- Pixel Mapping --- p.55 / Chapter 4.2 --- Reordering Pixels --- p.58 / Chapter 4.3 --- Transmission Sequence --- p.61 / Chapter 4.4 --- Changing the progression rate of the spatial and the contrast resolution --- p.62 / Chapter 4.5 --- Data Transmission --- p.69 / Chapter 4.6 --- Displaying the image --- p.70 / Chapter 5 --- Results Analysis & Performance Evaluation --- p.72 / Chapter 5.1 --- Traffic overhead --- p.72 / Chapter 5.2 --- Performance Evaluation --- p.73 / Chapter 5.2.1 --- Experiment --- p.73 / Chapter 5.2.2 --- Comparison with other Methods --- p.81 / Chapter 5.2.3 --- Image quality variation --- p.93 / Chapter 6 --- Discussion and Conclusion --- p.97 / Chapter 6.1 --- Discussion --- p.97 / Chapter 6.2 --- Conclusion --- p.99 / Bibliography --- p.101

by Sze Ho Pong. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 50-[53]). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Related Work --- p.3 / Chapter 1.2 --- Contributions of the Thesis --- p.3 / Chapter 1.3 --- Organization of the Thesis --- p.4 / Chapter 2 --- Background --- p.5 / Chapter 2.1 --- Best-effort Internet - The Lossy Network --- p.5 / Chapter 2.2 --- Effects of Packet Loss on Streamed Video --- p.7 / Chapter 2.3 --- Loss Recovery Schemes in Video Streaming --- p.8 / Chapter 3 --- Comparison of Two Packet-Loss Detection Schemes --- p.10 / Chapter 3.1 --- Gap Detection (GD) --- p.12 / Chapter 3.2 --- Time-Out (TO) Detection --- p.14 / Chapter 3.3 --- Mathematical Comparison --- p.17 / Chapter 4 --- The Combined Loss-Detection Algorithm --- p.21 / Chapter 4.1 --- System Architecture --- p.22 / Chapter 4.2 --- Loss Detection and Recovery --- p.23 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- Detecting Data Packet Losses Transmitted for First Time --- p.24 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- Detecting Losses of Retransmitted Packet --- p.28 / Chapter 4.3 --- Buffering Techniques --- p.32 / Chapter 4.3.1 --- Determining Packet-Loss Rate in Presentation --- p.33 / Chapter 4.4 --- Mapping Packet-Loss Rate to Degradation of Video Quality --- p.38 / Chapter 5 --- Experimental Results and Analysis --- p.40 / Chapter 5.1 --- Experimental Setup --- p.40 / Chapter 5.2 --- Small Delay Jitter Environment --- p.42 / Chapter 5.3 --- Large Delay Jitter Environment --- p.44 / Chapter 5.3.1 --- Using Low Bit-Rate Stream --- p.44 / Chapter 5.3.2 --- Using High Bit-Rate Stream --- p.44 / Chapter 6 --- Conclusions and Future Work --- p.47 / Chapter 6.1 --- Conclusions --- p.47 / Chapter 6.2 --- Future Work --- p.49 / Bibliography --- p.50

by Chan Ho Chow. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 65-67). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- Background --- p.5 / Chapter 2.1. --- Packet Loss in the Internet --- p.5 / Chapter 2.2. --- Shared Internet --- p.7 / Chapter 2.3. --- Video Streaming --- p.10 / Chapter 2.4. --- Real-time video transmission criteria --- p.11 / Chapter 2.5. --- Existing Video Streaming Protocol --- p.13 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) --- p.16 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- Variable-rate Streaming TCP (VarS-TCP) --- p.22 / Chapter 4.1. --- General Idea --- p.22 / Chapter 4.2. --- Assumptions --- p.25 / Chapter 4.3. --- VarS-TCP Algorithm --- p.26 / Chapter 4.3.1. --- Connection Initialization --- p.26 / Chapter 4.3.2. --- Normal Data Transfer --- p.27 / Chapter 4.4. --- Skipping packets in TCP --- p.32 / Chapter 4.4.1. --- Types of skipped packet --- p.32 / Chapter 4.4.2. --- Acknowledging skipped packets --- p.34 / Chapter 4.4.3. --- Maintaining Normal Data Flow --- p.35 / Chapter 4.4.4. --- Congestion Control --- p.37 / Chapter 4.4.5. --- Packets skipped by receiver --- p.41 / Chapter 4.5. --- Rebuffering --- p.44 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- Simulation Result --- p.45 / Chapter 5.1. --- Accumulating Data --- p.46 / Chapter 5.2. --- Delay Constraints --- p.48 / Chapter 5.3. --- Adapting network situation --- p.50 / Chapter 5.4. --- Sharing bandwidth with TCP --- p.52 / Chapter 5.5. --- Random Traffic --- p.58 / Chapter 5.6. --- Effect of packet skip threshold --- p.59 / Chapter 5.7. --- Effect of round-trip-time --- p.61 / Chapter Chapter 6 --- Conclusion and Future Works --- p.63 / Bibliography --- p.65