1. State-of-the-Art Video Transmission. - 1. 1 Video Transmission System. - 1. 2 Basic Components of a Video Codec. - 1. 3 ITU-T Recommendation H. 263. - 1. 4 Effectiveness of Motion Compensation Techniques in Hybrid Video Coding. - 1. 5 Advanced Motion Compensation Techniques. - 1. 6 Video Transmission Over Error Prone Channels. - 1. 7 Chapter Summary. - 2. Rate-Constrained Coder Control. - 2. 1 Optimization Using Lagrangian Techniques. - 2. 2 Lagrangian Optimization in Video Coding. - 2. 3 Coder Control for ITU-T Recommendation H. 263. - 2. 4 Choosing the Coder Control Parameters. - 2. 5 Comparison to Other Encoding Strategies. - 2. 6 Chapter Summary. - 3. Long-Term Memory Motion-Compensated Prediction. - 3. 1 Long-Term Memory Motion Compensation. - 3. 2 Prediction Performance. - 3. 3 Statistical Model for the Prediction Gain. - 3. 4 Integration into ITU-T Recommendation H. 263. - 3. 5 Discussion and Outlook. - 3. 6 Chapter Summary. - 4. Affine Multi-Frame Motion-Compensated Prediction. - 4. 1 Affine Multi-Frame Motion Compensation. - 4. 2 Rate-Constrained Coder Control. - 4. 3 Experiments. - 4. 4 Assessment of the Rate-Distortion Performance of Multi-Frame Prediction. - 4. 5 Discussion and Outlook. - 4. 6 Chapter Summary. - 5. Fast Motion Estimation for Multi-Frame Prediction. - 5. 1 Lossless Fast Motion Estimation. - 5. 2 Lossy Fast Motion Estimation. - 5. 3 Experiments. - 5. 4 Discussion and Outlook. - 5. 5 Chapter Summary. - 6. Error Resilient Video Transmission. - 6. 1 Error Resilient Extensions of the Decoder. - 6. 2 Error-Resilient Coder Control. - 6. 3 Experiments. - 6. 4 Discussion and Outlook. - 6. 5 Chapter Summary. - 7. Conclusions. - Appendices. - A- Simulation Conditions. - A. l Distortion Measures. - A. 2 Test Sequences. - B- Computation of Expected Values. - References. Language: English