In order for wireless devices to function, the signals must be coded in standard ways so that the sender and the receiver can communicate. This area of video source coding is one of the key challenges in the worldwide push to deliver full video communications over wireless devices. This important new book reviews current progress in this field and looks at how to solve some of the most important technology issues in the months and years ahead.  
The vision of being able to communicate from anywhere, at any time, and with any type of information is on its way to becoming reality. This natural convergence of mobile communications and multimedia is a field that is expected to achieve unprecedented growth and commercial success. Current wireless communication devices support a number of basic multimedia services (voice, messages, basic internet access), but have coding problems that need to be solved before "real-time" mobile video communication can be achieved.

Contents

Preface 
About the Authors  
List of Acronyms  
1. Introduction to Mobile Video Communications  
Part I: Introduction to Video Coding  
2. Video Coding Fundamentals  
3. Video Coding: Standards  
Part II: Coding Efficiency  
4. Basic Motion Estimation Techniques  
5. Warping-Based Motion Estimation Techniques  
6. Multiple-Reference Motion Estimation Techniques  
Part III: Computational Complexity  
7. Reduced-Complexity Motion Estimation Techniques  
8. The Simplex Minimization Search  
Part IV: Error Resilience  
9. Error-Resilience Video Coding Techniques  
10. Error Concealment Using Motion Field Interpolation  
Appendix A: Fast Block-Matching Algorithms  
Bibliography 
Index