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…