INTERNATIONAL
ORGANISATION FOR STANDARDISATION
ORGANISATION
INTERNATIONALE DE NORMALISATION
ISO/IEC/JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11
CODING OF MOVING PICTURES
AND AUDIO
ISO/IEC
JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 N8195
July 2006 –
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Convenor of MPEG |
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Approved
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MPEG Press Release |
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2006
July 28 |
MPEG headline
MPEG Systems News
MPEG has completed its work on
font representation in
This standard along with the already-completed Font
Compression and Streaming standard (MPEG-4 Part 18) provide a powerful addition
to MPEG’s suite of standards that support the full range of multimedia
technologies.
MPEG Video and Graphics News
MPEG's work on Multi-view Video Coding (MVC)
has continued to show promise for innovative future applications such as
free-viewpoint video and 3-D video. Consequently MPEG has concluded that MVC can
best be standardized as an extension of the Advanced Video Coding (AVC)
standard (ISO/IEC 14496-10 | ITU-T Rec. H.264). At the
At the 77th WG 11 meeting, inputs were
received answering the Call for Proposals on Reconfigurable Video Coding (RVC).
A first Working Draft combining ideas from several proposals was created, and
Core Experiments were defined on Decoder Definition Language and Functional
Unit (FU) Description. Typical FUs are decoder
building blocks from existing MPEG standards at a sub-tool granularity level.
RVC will allow for plugging together decoder configurations of FUs and defining the associated bitstream
syntax. In a second phase, it is planned to support modifications of existing FUs and definitions of entirely new FUs.
Such a framework would enable simple extensibility of MPEG standards by
tailoring configurations as needed for specific applications. A first version
of an RVC standard could become available during 2008.
An MPEG-J GFX (Graphical Framework eXtension) Player for constrained devices was demonstrated
at the
MPEG Audio News
At the
MPEG -21 News
MPEG-21 reached a significant milestone with
the release of its 2nd edition of reference software on CD. This new edition includes software
for all the current parts of MPEG-21 and when fully completed will be an invaluable
resource for those wishing to utilize the MPEG-21 standards.
MPEG Application Formats
The new Music Player Application format
(Second Edition) was released as a Committee Draft at the
Call for Proposals on MPEG-7 Query
Format (MP7QF)
MPEG has issued a Final Call for
Proposals on MPEG-7 Query Format (MP7QF). The goal of this work on a MPEG-7
Query Format framework is to provide industry with a unified and standardized means
of exchanging queries and responses for multimedia based searches from MPEG-7
databases. Extracting the features associated with multimedia content and
applying it to search engines is becoming increasingly important especially for
personal, as well as commercial audio and image media. It also becomes very practical with affordable
consumer electronic devices such as MP3 recordable players, and digital
cameras, and well-integrated smart phones in the marketplace.
Digging Deeper once again
Communicating the
large and sometimes complex array of technology that the MPEG Committee has
developed is not a simple task. The experts past and present have contributed a
series of white-papers that explain each of these standards individually. The
repository is growing each meeting so if something you are interested is not
there yet it may be shortly - but do not hesitate to request it as well. You
can start your MPEG adventure at: http://www.chiariglione.org/mpeg/mpeg-tech.htm
Further
information
Future MPEG meetings are as
follows:
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For further information about MPEG, please contact:
Dr. Leonardo Chiariglione, (Convenor of MPEG,
Via Borgionera, 103
10040 Villar Dora (TO),
Tel +39
011 935 04 61
Email: mailto:leonardo@chiariglione.org
or
Peter Schirling
IBM Semiconductor and Technology Services Program Manager
River Road, MS 862H
Tel +1 802 769 6123 Fax: +1 802 769 7362
Email: schirlin@us.ibm.com
This press release and other
MPEG-related information can be found on the MPEG
homepage:
http://www.chiariglione.org/mpeg
The text and details related to the
Call mentioned above (together with other current Calls) are in the Hot News section,
http://www.chiariglione.org/mpeg/hot_news.htm. These documents include information on how
to respond the Calls.
The MPEG homepage also has links to other MPEG pages, which
are maintained by the MPEG subgroups. It also contains links to public
documents that are freely available for download by non-MPEG members.
Journalists that wish to receive MPEG Press Releases by email can contact Peter Schirling as shown above.