Archives: 2015-August-20

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...

Starting from Video, MPEG has gradually covered most of the media and related spectrum: Video technologies to efficiently represent video information. Audio technologies to efficiently represent audio information. Systems technologies...

In its quest to provide the necessary standards for the Digital Media industry, MPEG started the MPEG Multimedia Middleware (M3W), a complete set of standards defining the software environment of...

Six months after leaving my employer of 32 years, I became CEO of CEDEO, an Italian company I had already a participation in, and made it the vehicle of my...

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...

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...