Expected Distortion of Dct-Coefficients in Video Streaming over Unreliable Channel -- Content Adaptation Tools in the CAIN Framework -- Extrapolating Side Information for Low-Delay Pixel-Domain Distributed Video Coding -- Transmission-Efficient Image-Based Authentication for Mobile Devices -- A Study on Visual Attack to BPCS-Steganography and Countermeasure -- Fast Intra 4X4 Mode Elimination Approaches for H.264 -- Backward-Compatible Interleaving Technique for Robust JPEG2000 Wireless Transmission -- An Ontology Infrastructure for Multimedia Reasoning -- Reduced Frame Quantization in Video Coding -- Video Object Watermarking Based on Moments -- Cross-Layer Scheduling with Content and Packet Priorities for Optimal Video Streaming over 1xEV-DO -- Video Rendering: Zooming Video Using Fractals -- Progressive Mesh-Based Motion Estimation Using Partial Refinement -- Very Low Bitrate Video: A Statistical Analysis in the DCT Domain -- H.264/AVC Based Video Coding Using Multiscale Recurrent Patterns: First Results -- Video Streaming in Electron Microscopy Applications -- A New Generic Texture Synthesis Approach for Enhanced H.264/MPEG4-AVC Video Coding -- An Intermediate Expressions' Generator System in the MPEG-4 Framework -- Coding with Temporal Layers or Multiple Descriptions for Lossy Video Transmission -- Fast Mode Decision Based on Activity Segmentation in H.264/AVC Encoding -- Atom Position Coding in a Matching Pursuit Based Video Coder -- Efficient Digital Pre-filtering for Least-Squares Linear Approximation -- Motion Compensated Frame Rate Up-Conversion for Low Frame Rate Video -- Progressive Contour Coding in the Wavelet Domain -- Description of Evolutional Changes in Image Time Sequences Using MPEG-7 Visual Descriptors -- Per-GOP Bitrate Adaptation for H.264 Compressed Video Sequences.-User Authentication Based on JPEG2000 Images -- Evaluation of Color Image Segmentation Algorithms Based on Histogram Thresholding.

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 complementary aspects of visual content processing and distribution, the workshop gave the opportunity of exchanging ideas and opinions on hot topics in the ?elds by means of three open panels. The ?rst was devoted to the role of standards, with the attempt of both panelists and audience to provide answers to challenging questions on the success of standards, their industrial spino?, and the involvement of academic people in standardization activities. The second panel aimed to discuss the advances and the perspectives of wavelet based compression. The third one focused on the applications of distributed video coding; the discussion mainly regarded the real performance of such an approach in video coding when compared with traditional approaches. In addition to these components, the program was enriched by two sti- lating invited talks given by world-renowned researchers in the ?eld: "Digital Cinema", by Michael W. Marcellin and "Distributed Video Coding", by Bernd Girod.