After the memorable achievement of the PD 1.0 specification, I tried hard to convince SDMI people that the group should work on developing interoperable specifications that included specific technologies beyond...
Part 1 of the MPEG-21 standard has the title “Vision, Technologies and Strategy“. It is not a standard but a Technical Report because it contains a description of part of...
By 2003 the MPEG-21 project that I had kicked off three years before in MPEG, as a result of my failure to convince SDMI to move to technology specification after...
The IDP specification is a set of 9 Approved Documents (AD), DMP lingo for specifications, addressing many, though not all yet, of the areas envisaged by the Digital Media Manifesto....
Open Media Marketplace In 2008 DMP began discussions on Open Media Marketplace (OMM), an environment where Users perform actions on Entities using Services provided by Service Providers. The following subset...
At the end of May 2005 I was invited to make a speech at an internal school of Mediaset (the main private broadcaster in Italy) in Cologno Monzese, near Milan....
Starting from the early 2000s, several sessions were held to discuss about “what else does industry need from MPEG?” in the typical MPEG anticipative fashion. Finally at the Munich meeting...
The successive waves of audio-visual technologies experiences by consumers in the last few decades are teaching one important lesson: every new technology creates a discontinuity Those who have created Super8...
Publish/Subscribe (PubSub) is an established communication paradigm where senders do not communicate information directly to the intended receivers but rely instead on a service that mediates the relationship between senders...
The success of the web has been largely dependent on the possibility to create a link from a point in a document to a point in another document. it is...
It has always been a point of pride for MPEG to have been able to create the MPEG-1 Audio-Video-Systems package overcoming the informal, but nonetheless effective barriers that used to...
MPEG-B Part 1 “Binary MPEG format for XML” (BiM) was originally developed a the technology to compress MPEG-7 Descriptors and Description Schemes and placed in MPEG-7 Part 1. BiM was...
MPEG-C Part 1 “Accuracy specification for implementation of integer-output IDCT” specifies the IDCT accuracy that is equivalent to or extends the IEEE 1180 standard. This standard referenced by quite a...
MPEG-D Part 1 “MPEG Surround” provides an efficient bridge between stereo and multichannel presentations in low-bitrate applications. The MPEG Surround technology supports very efficient parametric coding of multi-channel audio signals,...
While MPEG was busily developing more and more video compression standards, China decided that it could well afford to have its own national digital audio-video-system technology and in June 2002...
At the Tokyo meeting in July 1995 Hiroshi Yasuda showed up and proposed to address the coding of information that is partly natutal (e.g. a video, a music) and partly...
Digital Media started with the digitisation of audio, video and images. But Digital Media is not confined to audio, video and images. So the MPEG-4 mission has been about implementing...
The user interface is a very important component of Digital Media devices, services and applications. The sleek user interface offered by Apple products is quoted as a key element for...