In-band enriched video for interactive applications

The advent of the Internet technologies and the continuously increasing non-linear multimedia content consumption require new types of digital products, the so called enriched multimedia products. They are obtained by enhancing the traditional media types (still image, video, audio, 3D) with additional information: content presentation attributes and/or description, interactive behaviour, outside references, etc. This paper presents an innovative way in which such products can be handled in a compact, unitary and efficient manner: the enriching information is inserted in the host image/video object by means of data hiding techniques. The experiments were carried out in cooperation with the SFR (Vodafone group) wireless service provider in France.