Bart Masschelein

Bart Masschelein was born in Izegem, Belgium. He received an Industrial Engineering degree of Electronics in 1998 from the Katholieke Hogeschool Brugge Oostende, Oostende (Belgium). He received his Master of Science in Electronic Design at the KHBO (Ostend, Belgium) in cooperation with Leeds Metropolitan University in 1999. On August 1998 he started working at the Multimedia Image Compression System group of IMEC/DESICS, currently called MultiMedia group. His first research topics were wavelet-based still-image compression systems for space application, which led to the Local Wavelet Transform, an instruction-based memory-efficient wavelet implementation. Currently, he is involved in the implementation of a memory-efficient Scalable Video Codec, as developed within the MPEG-21 committee. He has also been supporting the European Space Agency in developing the new CCSDS compression recommendation.