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The High Definition AAC (HD-AAC) Profile is based on MPEG-4 AAC Low Complexity (AAC-LC) and MPEG-4 Scalable Lossless Coding (SLS). It offers a high quality audio signal representation scalable from AAC-LC quality up to fully lossless quality at up to 96 kHz / 24 bit stereo.

The HD-AAC profile is intended to be utilized in home media servers, streaming devices, digital archiving systems, portable media players, gaming consoles, car entertainment systems, consumer software tools, pro audio software tools, etc. In general this profile will be used for PCs as well as for embedded systems based audio applications being limited by CPU power and memory.

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The AAC profile and HE-AAC v2 profiles have enjoyed widespread adoption by industry, in part because they were deliberately kept simple in order to meet the industry needs and not burden the implementers with features not useful for their application. However, the profiles included support for the 960 transform in addition to the more commonly used 1024 transform. So far, industry has failed to live up to the exact wording of the original specification by only implementing one of the two transform lengths. In fact several application standards limit the profile to one frame length, and do not require support for both. This may have significant impact on interoperability, and this effort seeks a solutions to this dilemma.

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This amendment will provide

1.      A profile that is a common core of cross-application compatibility among decoders supporting the existing high-volume profiles (Baseline and High), reflects some existing industry practice, and improves alignment with some guidelines adopted in important application specifications

2.      A profile providing an effective solution to adapt the full set of coding tools of the High profile for stereo-view applications.  The number of coded views is limited to two, in order to address the particular class of stereo video applications.  Support for interlaced coding tools is included, as these are supported in the High Profile on which the multiview video coding (MVC) extensions are already otherwise based, and as interlaced camera capture remains a common application scenario.  The interlaced coding tools included in this profile can be supported easily in implementations based on the existing (single view) High profile.

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This standard contains all the 3D Graphics tools developed by MPEG since 2001. They are classified in representation and compression tools. In the first category there are high order surface representation, subdivision surfaces, implicit equation-based volume representation, shape deformation models. The 3D Graphics compression toolbox handles three types of graphics data: geometry (3D Mesh Compression, Wavelet Subdivision Surface, MeshGrid, FootPrint), appearance (Depth-based Image Representation, PointTexture) and animation (Bone-based Animation, Frame-based Animated Mesh Compression). The standard also defines profiles for using MPEG-4 3D Graphics tools in applications.

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This standard defines three profiles: one for Graphics dimension (called Basic AFX Graphics), one for Scene Graph dimension (called Basic AFX Scene Graph) and one for compression dimension (called 3D MultiResolution Compression). The combination of the three profiles allows progressive and adaptive transmission over networks of large 3D environments and/or complex 3D shapes.

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LC-3DMC aims to provide efficient and low-complexity 3D mesh compression and streaming for downloading 3D vertex positions, normals, texture coordinates, other attributes per vertex, and topology. Low complexity is targeted for both, decoder and encoder. This standard aims to enable real-time applications on devices with low computational and memory capacities (PDA, mobile phones…).

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A standard media value chain ontology focusing on the rights management aspects. The standard specifies a core OWL ontology, extensible for specific domains as well as an API to facilitate access to the ontology.

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4

CCR provides a description of media decoder configuration, which contains syntax parsing and decoding process. Now, the design of CCR is mainly done in video coding, but may be applicable to audio and other media coding. Using CCR and a toolbox containing functional units (FUs), a decoding solution may be implemented. CCR may support the toolbox with MPEG tools as well as the toolbox with nonMPEG tools.

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4

1.      A repository of video coding tools used in MPEG Video standards

2.      The series of MPEG video coding standards with indication of which coding tools defined in 1. they use

3.      Combination of tools for existing standards (if applicable)

4.      Possible case: intraframe only profile(s)

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Spatial Audio Object Coding represents several audio objects by first combining the object signals into a mono or stereo signal, whilst extracting parameters from the individual object signals based on knowledge of human perception of the sound stage. These parameters are coded as a low bitrate side-channel that the decoder uses to render an audio scene from the stereo or mono down-mix such that the aspects of the output composition can be decided at the time of decoding.

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Unified Speech and Audio Coding is a single, unified coder with performance that equals or surpasses that of dedicated speech coders for speech signals and dedicated music coders for music signals over a broad range of bitrates. It employs time-domain linear prediction and residual coding tools for speech-like signal segments and transform coding tools for music-like signal segments and is able to switch between the tool sets in a dynamic, signal-responsive manner.

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1

This project will provide a standardized framework that enables the interoperability between virtual worlds (as for example IMVU, Google Earth and many others) and the real world (sensors, actuators, social and welfare systems, banking, insurance, travel, real estate and many others). Virtual Worlds are 3D space where people can work, interact, play, travel, learn and augment real life. The broad acceptance of virtual words (social networks, serious games, …) and the relation to the real world (devices and real world networks) brings emerging (business) opportunities and challenges; the resulting interoperability will enable a new and sustainable industry. It is foreseen that this project will enable the start of the next revolution of the internet and related technologies, which will become a major source of information, services, education and entertainment and associated business in the ‘digital society’.

Standardization of Sensory Effects information to improve presentation of audiovisual contents. Sensory Effects may include special effects such as opening/closing window curtains for mood changes, turning on a flashbulb for lightning flash effects as well as fragrance, flame, fog, and scare effects made by scent devices, flame-throwers, fog generators, and shaking chairs respectively. This work will lead to the application of new media for enhanced experiences of users in a more realistic sense.

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3D video (3DV) supports new types of audio-visual systems that allow users to view videos of the real 3D space from different user viewpoints.  In an advanced application of 3DV, denoted as Free-viewpoinT Video (FTV), a user can set the viewpoint to an almost arbitrary location and direction, which can be static, change abruptly, or vary continuously, within the limits that are given by the available camera setup. Similarly, the audio listening point is changed accordingly. 

The first phase of 3DV development is expected to support advanced 3D displays, where M dense views must be generated from a sparse set of K transmitted views (typically K£3) with associated depth data. The allowable range of view synthesis will be relatively narrow (20 degrees view angle from leftmost to rightmost view).

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The overall amount of video data rate that is to be transferred over networks will grow at a very fast pace by the increased number of services and users and the increasing resolution of video from SD to HD and beyond. Therefore, next generation of video compression technology is needed that has clearly higher compression capability than the existing AVC standard in its best configuration, the High Profile. A study has been started on the feasibility of HVC, which is mainly intended for high quality applications, in particular expecting

·        Performance improvements at higher resolution,

·        Applicability to entertainment-quality services such as HD mobile, home cinema and UHD TV.

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11

New profile definition for interactive services over digital radio possibly including additional technologies to BIFS and link to LASeR presentation

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20

2

10064

This amendment provides means to for the adaptation of scene representation considering the terminal. It supports the optimized scene composition regarding each device types and the resource status. The purpose is  providing the efficient tool for supporting various sorts of terminals in the network such as IPTV.

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This specification specifies means to present any Structured Information (any document conforming a given schema such as MPEG-21 DI or TVAnytime) in a consistent manner using Presentation Information (MPEG-4 LASeR.) It also provides a mechanism to reflect the result of the presentation back into the Structured Information. For example, a feature-rich (such as graphical layout of channel information and predefined user interactions) channel guide can be provided using this specification by accessing incoming EPG structured information and presenting declaratively.

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Video signature tools support ultra-fast search for and identification of videos and their modified/edited versions or fragments. They are designed to be robust to a range of deformations, such as coding artifacts, blurring, colour-to-monochrome conversion, trans-coding and and frame-rate change. Applications include:

·        Video-based content searching and linking,

·        Database de-duplication and

·        Content Rights Management and Usage Monitoring.

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8

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10160

The standard is amended by the extraction and matching methods related to the Image Signature Tools (15938-3/Amd.3). This includes fast, high precision methods as needed for search in extremely large image databases.

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This effort will explore specification of metadata derived from the audio signal. It is envisioned that such metadata may at least consist of information to control the following three factors (the three "classical" D's):

·        dialog normalization

·        dynamic range control

·        downmix

Such Audio metadata permits the receiver to manipulate the received audio signal based on the adjustments performed by the listener.

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This specification standardizes means to present structured information in a MPEG-21 Digital Item by a scene representation language such as MPEG-4 LASeR. An element named as Presentation is added into Digital Item Declaration Model to presents the metadata or other information of its parent Digital Item. Typically the Presentation element is a well-formed XML document (or just a pointer to a remote fragment) which contains the Presentation Information.

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10241

Specifies the transport format for ISO/IEC 14496-10:200x/AMD? Multiview Video Coding (MVC) video streams in MPEG-2 Systems.

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This amendment improves various areas, including metadata support, sample groups, and sample groups, and introduces hint tracks to support MPEG-2 Transport, multimedia internet key  (MIKEY) streams, and the recording of streams as hint tracks.

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13500

Multiple occurrences of “mp4a” tracks in an MP4FF presents problems for many existing implementations, in that it is not clear if such tracks are alternate encodings of a signal (e.g. multiple bitrates) or if one track depends on the other (e.g. one is a “base” AAC stream and the other is an SLS “enhancement” stream).

This amendment extends the MP4FF specification to implement new box type “mp4ae” that will be used to indicate that a track is an “audio enhancement” track. Hence, base plus enhancement track structures can be indicated as:

• box type mp4a is audio base track
• m4ae is audio enhancement track

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Standardizes means for storing the MVC Video format in the ISO File Format

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In order to overcome current limitations of available standards in the area of media streaming, the development of a media aware client is envisioned in line with the MPEG philosophy of concentrating the work on the media client. Possible topics of work are:

·        Transport- and file format friendly stream format

·        Cross layer optimization between video and transport layer

·        Error resilience for MPEG streams,

·        Conversion between transport mechanisms

·        Content adaptation to different networks.

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The MPEG Extensible Middleware standard is designed to promote the extended use of digital media content through increased interoperability and accelerated development of components, solutions and applications.

The MXM standard will promote the creation of a global market of applications, devices, and MXM components. As a result, we expect that innovative business models will be easily deployed.

This part of MXM specifies the MXM architecture and references the technologies that are part of an MXM implementation.

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This part of MXM specifies a set of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) so that MXM Applications executing on an MXM Device can access the standard multimedia technologies contained in its Middleware as MXM Engines, as specified by part 1 of MXM.

The APIs belong to two classes

—         The MXM Engine APIs, i.e. the collection of the individual MXM Engine APIs providing access to a single MPEG technology (e.g. video coding) or to a group of MPEG technologies where this is convenient

—         The MXM Orchestrator API, i.e. the API of the special MXM Engine that is capable of creating chains of MXM engines to execute a high-level application call such as Play, as opposed to the typically low-level MXM Engine API calls

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The Rich Media UI Framework specification standardizes a Widget Representation Format and Widget Packaging Formats to enable operators and manufacturers to consistently deliver a rich experience across consumer electronics and mobile devices, and beyond. The key features of the MPEG Rich Media UI Framework are the following:

·        a broad range of possible exploitation domains such as home network, broadcast, web and mobile domains;

·        the possibility to update the User Interface in a continuous manner;

·        the integration of a wide variety of media type (audio, video, text, 2D and 3D graphics).

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Standard on IPTV terminal providing enhanced features as follows:

·        User can run downloadable applications that are continuously made available by developers for multiple HW platforms without the need of separate developments to enhance user experience

·        Pervasive content generation, processing, distribution, search and retrieval etc.

·        P2P content generation, sharing and social networking

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2 Ed

This International Standard specifies a digital item structure, a file format, and references set of protocols used in a media streaming environment for applications where governed audio and video information is streamed to an end-user device by means of existing protocols such as MPEG-2 Transport Stream or Real Time Protocol over Internet Protocol (RTP/IP), and provides a set informative implementations corresponding to specific applications.

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9

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10461

The purpose of the Amendment 2 is to update the MPEG-2 TS storage method of the standard so that it also complies to the Amendment 1 of ISO/IEC 14496-12 3rd Ed. (ISO base media file format).

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12

This defines a file format designed for interactive music service. It specifies how to combine the multiple audio tracks with associated information for a presentation in a well-defined format that facilitates storage, interchange, management, editing, and presentation of interactive music contents in interoperable ways.

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2E

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This amendment extends BSAC reference software to support coding of multichannel signals and use of the SBR coding tool.

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9973

Reference software related to AVC Multiview Video Coding (ISO/IEC 14496-10:2008/Amd.1)

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This standard provides the reference software for the MPEG-4 File Format specification as described in ISO/IEC 14496-12 and ISO/IEC 14496-14.

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Provides a reference implementation of 3DMC Extension, Foot Print and Shadow tools as defined in ISO/IEC 14496-16.

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27

10326

Provides a reference implementation of Scalable Compression 3D Mesh Coding as defined in ISO/IEC 14496-16 AMD4.

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4

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25

10016

This standard provides the Reference Software Implementation for Scene Partitioning tool as described in ISO/IEC 14496-1

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23

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10156

Reference software related to Image Signature Tools (15938-3/Amd.3).

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6

Reference Software for Professional Archival MAF (ISO/IEC 23000-6).

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Reference Software of DMB MAF (ISO/IEC 23000-9).

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Reference Software for Video Surveillance MAF (ISO/IEC 23000-10).

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Reference Software for Stereoscopic Video AF (ISO/IEC 23000-11).

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Reference Software for Interactive Music AF (ISO/IEC 23000-12).

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Reference Software for MXM

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26

This work collects all MPEG-4 Audio Conformance information into a single document. The result will make it much easier to find desired conformance information as it merges all audio-related clauses in

14496-4 and all audio-related amendments to 14496-4 into a single document, MPEG-4 Part 26.

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This amendment contains conformance descriptions and informations for

MPEG-4 AAC, MPEG-4 AAC-ELD and also MEPG-4 Audio AMD 8, "MP4FF Box for Original Audio File Information."

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26

1

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10144

Conformance testing related to AVC Multiview Video Coding (ISO/IEC 14496-10:2008/Amd.1)

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This amendment provides the conformance for the MPEG-4 File Format specification as described in ISO/IEC 14496-12 and ISO/IEC 14496-14.

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27

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10014

This standard provides the conformance for the Scene Partitioning as specified in ISO/IEC 14496-16.

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27

2

This standard provides the conformance for the Scalable Complexity 3D Mesh Compression specification as described in ISO/IEC 14496-16 AMD4.

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This standard provides the conformance for the 3DGCM specification as described in ISO/IEC 14496-25

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10158

Conformance testing related to Image Signature Tools (15938-3/Amd.3).

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Conformance testing related to Photo Player MAF (ISO/IEC 23000-3).

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Conformance Musical Slide Show MAF (ISO/IEC 23000-4).

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Conformance Professional Archival MAF (ISO/IEC 23000-4).

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Conformance of DMB MAF (ISO/IEC 23000-9).

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Conformance for Video Surveillance MAF (ISO/IEC 23000-10).

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Conformance for Stereoscopic video AF (ISO/IEC 23000-11).

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Conformance for Interactive Music AF AF (ISO/IEC 23000-12).

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VTL Conformance Provides tools for testing FUs and conformance measurement procedures which support testing of MPEG RVC bitstreams and decoders.

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This part of MXM specifies the conformance tests for MXM applications, devices, and components.

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Correction for field pictures

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Correction of two small bugs in studio profiles

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Correction of a set of small bugs and typos in the 200x edition (including SVC)

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DST and MP3on4

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SLS

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16

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MPEG-A provides the framework such as a file format for integration of elements from several MPEG standards into a single specification that is suitable for specific but widely usable applications. Typically, MPEG-A specifies how to combine metadata with timed media information for a presentation in a well-defined format that facilitates interchange, management, editing, and presentation of the media.