Traditional video compression algorithms focus on causal processing of the video data. The causal constraint is necessary for real-time video programs where delay is an important consideration. However, many video programs such as movies are pre-recorded and can be processed offline prior to compression. This thesis proposes using pre-processing for pre-recorded video programs to obtain useful ...

The plural of anecdote is not data, as scientists will tell you, but consider these snapshots of the emerging happiness debate anyway: Lately, Jerome Wakefield's students have been coming up to him after they break up with a boyfriend or girlfriend, and not because they want him to recommend a therapist. Wakefield, a professor at New York University, coauthored the 2007 book "The Loss of Sadnes...