A method of inserting binary data into MPEG bitstreams for video index labeling

We propose a method for inserting optional binary data into MPEG bitstreams. By inserting additional information like index label effectively into video database, we can deal the additional information with video data itself easily. The proposed method allows us to extract the inserted data perfectly though the MPEG video is a lossy algorithm, and the quality of the decoded images after extracting additional information is almost the same as that of the ordinary MPEG bitstreams. Moreover, the standard MPEG decoder can be used for decoding the bitstreams with inserted binary data. In that case, the additional binary data remains in bitstreams but can decode images without obvious image degradation. To verify the effectiveness of our method, we show simulation results for binary data insertion