This comprehensive and state-of-the art approach to video processing gives engineers and students a comprehensive introduction and includes full coverage of key applications: wireless video, video networks, video indexing and retrieval and use of video in speech processing. Containing all the essential methods in video processing alongside the latest standards, it is a complete resource for the professional engineer, researcher and graduate student.

• Numerous conceptual and numerical examples
• All the latest standards are thoroughly covered: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4,...