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Recent MPEG video compression standards are still block-based: blocks of pixels are sequentially coded using spatial or temporal prediction schemes. For each block, a vector of coding parameters has to be selected. In order to limit the complexity of this decision, independence between blocks is assumed, and coding parameters are locally optimized to maximize the coding efficiency. Few studies have...