This comprehensive and state‎-of‎-the‎-art approach to video processing gives engineers and students a comprehensive introduction and includes full coverage of key applications‎:‎ wireless video‎,‎ video networks‎,‎ video indexing and retrieval and use of video in speech processing‎.‎ Containing all the essential methods in video processing alongside the latest standards‎,‎ it is a complete resource for the professional engineer‎,‎ researcher and graduate student‎.‎ It includes numerous conceptual and numerical examples‎.‎ All the latest standards are thoroughly covered‎:‎ MPEG‎-1‎,‎ MPEG‎-2‎,‎ MPEG‎-4‎,‎ H‎.‎264 and AVC‎.‎ It provides coverage of the latest techniques in video security‎.‎ ‎'‎Like its sister volume "The Essential Guide to Image Processing"‎,‎ Professor Bovik‎'‎s "Essential Guide to Video Processing" provides a timely and comprehensive survey‎,‎ with contributions from leading researchers in the area‎.‎ Highly recommended for everyone with an interest in this fascinating and fast‎-moving field‎'‎ ‎- Prof‎.‎ Bernd Girod‎,‎ Stanford University‎,‎ USA‎.‎ This title is edited by a leading person in the field who created the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing‎,‎ with contributions from experts in their fields‎.‎