My ability to present – and get approved – European projects dwindled after I left Telecom Italia. In the early days of the DMP a convinced a group of European DMP members to propose a project on “DRM Conformance” (DRM-C). In the abstract we wrote that the project was meant…
Multimedia Standards For An Evolving Market
Two years after the completion of the 1st edition of the AVC standard MPEG organised a Worshop on Future Directions in Video Compression (Busan, April 2005). The purpose of the workshop was to inquire about the prospects of a new generation of video compression standards. As no definite answer could…
Coping With An Unpredictable Internet
Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) is a media-streaming standard in which the client has control of the server-client information flow. Clients may request data using the HTTP protocol from standard web servers even if the servers may not have DASH-specific capabilities. The DASH standard primarily defines two formats: The…
Inside MPEG-H – Systems
MPEG Media Transport (MMT) has been designed to support the second half of the MPEG-H title “Media Delivery in Heterogeneous Environments” and is based on the following assumptions IP-based delivery: packet oriented, with relatively large jitter, and use of internet protocols and functionalities (e.g. NTP) Two-planes: data plane for media…
MPEG-H Inside – 2D Video
The video coding layer of HEVC is based on the typical “hybrid” approach (inter- and intra-picture prediction and 2D transform coding) with some key differences that enhance compression. Figure 1 gives a high-level reference diagram Figure 1 – HEVC encoder block diagram Here is a list of the main technical…
Explorations
The MPEG machine churns out new standards or amendments at a regular pace, but MPEG is also continuously investigating new standardisation needs. Here is a list of some of the current areas of investigation. Compact descriptors for video analysis (CDVA). After the successful completion of the CDVS standard, MPEG is…
End of the MPEG ride?
In an endeavour like MPEG any time is a good time to ask the question: does MPEG still have a role to play? I can see three reasons why it may be a good idea to (plan to) end this over-a-quarter-of-a-century long ride on the media bits. The first is…
The end of MPEG may be coming, soon?
In End of the MPEG ride?, written a couple of years ago, I tried to guess the future of MPEG and concluded that the MPEG formula was strong enough to guarantee a long future to the organisation. Now I am coming to the conclusion that my analysis was probably too self-assuring.…
The Future Of Research
There is more than one reason why I feel the need for a page on the future of research I have spent a large part of my professional life – so far more than 45 years if I include the years of my Ph. D. in Japan – working in…
Acknowledgements
I feel obliged to write this page. This most extraordinary ride on media bits that I have had in the last quarter of a century has been a truly unique, if exhausting, experience. Almost every day I have been confronted with the need to make decisions, sometimes of far reaching…