This book is a post-conference publication and contains a selection of papers presented at the VLBV workshop in 2005, which was held in Sardinia, Italy, on September 15-16. VLBV 2005 attracted very high interest among the scienti?c community, and the workshop received 85 submissions. Fifty-?ve papers were accepted and presented in three poster sessions focusing on New Perspectives in Handling Multimedia Data, Wavelet Based Compression: Advances and Perspectives, and Applications of Distributed Video Coding . Beyondprovidingaforumforthepresentationofhigh-qualityresearchpapers in various...