This volume presents a comprehensive description of a technique in video coding and transmission. The work presented in the book has had a very strong impact on video coding standards and should be of interest to practicing engineers and researchers as well as academics. The multi-frame technique and the Lagrangian coder control have been adopted by the ITU-T as an integral part of the well known H.263 standard and are were adopted in the ongoing H.26L project of the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group.