Emerging multimedia applications have driven the need for more flexible video coding. Video encoding, however, involves huge computations and hence, there is significant interest to speed up the processing of video encoders. In deed motion estimation (ME) is the major bottleneck in real-time coding applications. As yet, there is no unified fast searching approach that provides flexibility to automatically adapt system parameters in relation to a preset user-defined picture quality or computational complexity in any flexible multimedia applications. The work presented in this book details the...