Abstract
Streaming Video Profile is the subject of an Amendment of MPEG-4, and is developed in response to the growing need on a video-coding standard for streaming video over the Internet. It provides fine granularity scalability (FGS), and its combination with temporal scalability addresses a variety of challenging problems in delivering video over the Internet. In this thesis, we develop a mode selection method that may find the most suitable scalable coding from six coding schemes: FGS, FGST, FGS-SE and FGST with background composition based on the information that can be easily extracted from base layer encoder.