The explosion of multimedia applications leads to a great expansion of video transmission over heterogeneous channels. These developments increase the need for highly flexible and scalable video compression systems. For all currently available interactive multimedia applications however, which are demanding in terms of video quality and coding efficiency, the cost as well as the limited scalability remain unacceptable. Therefore, MASCOT seeks to design an intrinsically scalable video coding scheme providing fully progressive bitstreams by exploiting novel morphological and adaptive wavelet decomposition methods. Furthermore, the project aims to improve the quality and efficiency of video coding systems by exploiting metadata information.

Runtime: 2001 - 2003