... including shape coding, motion estimation and compensation, prediction, texture coding, scalable coding, sprite coding and still image coding. The following section gives an overview of the coding of ... IMAGE AND VIDEO SEGMENTATION The new video coding standard MPEG-4 [11, 12], on the other hand, targets more than just large coding gains. To provide new functionali- ties for future multimedia ... 3), Model-based Coding (Chapter 4), Video Object Plane Ex- traction and Tracking (Chapter 5), and MPEG-4 Video Coding Standard (Chapter 6). Chapter 1 deals with image and video segmentation....