Fernando Pereira
ABSTRACT
Multimedia communications play a growing role in the every day's life of modern societies. Until recently, and except for broadcast television and radio, voice was still the sole communication mechanism. However, the diffusion of digital processing algorithms and hardware has brought images, music, and video into everyday life. The availability of open standards (such as JPEG, MPEG-X Audio and Video, H.26X) has had a major impact on this progression, notably due to the easy interoperability. Such standards have made the creation, and communication of (digital) data aimed at our most important senses, sight and hearing, simple, inexpensive and commonplace. With time, multimedia standards have addressed a growing set of fields from coding and metadata to rights management and content adaptation, following the increasing (functional and technical) complexity of multimedia applications.
Since MPEG standards have played a key role in the progress of the multimedia landscape, this tutorial will provide an evolutional overview of MPEG standards, discussing and explaining why certain choices were made, and thus a certain vision of the multimedia world was followed. Moreover this tutorial will specifically address the most recent MPEG standards, notably MPEG-21, MPEG-4 AVC, SVC and MVC, and finally MPEG-A.
- B. Haskell, A. Puri, A. Netravali, "Digital Video: an Introduction to MPEG-2", Chapman & Hall, 1997. Google Scholar
Digital Library
- F. Pereira, T. Ebrahimi (ed.), "The MPEG-4 Book", Prentice Hall, 2002. Google ScholarDigital Library
- B. S. Manjunath, P. Salembier and T. Sikora (ed.), "Introduction to MPEG-7: Multimedia Content Description Language", John Wiley & Sons, 2002. Google ScholarDigital Library
- J. Ostermann, J. Bormans, P. List, D. Marpe, M. Narroschke, F. Pereira, "Video Coding with H.264/AVC: Tools, Performance, and Complexity", IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, pp. 1540--7977/04, First Quarter of 2004.Google Scholar
- T. Wiegand, G. Sullivan, G. Bjntegaard, A. Luthra, "Overview of the H.264/AVC Video Coding Standard", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 13, No. 7, pp. 560--576, July 2003. Google ScholarDigital Library
- I. Burnett, F. Pereira, R. Van de Walle, R. Koenen (ed.), "The MPEG-21 Book", John Wiley & Sons, 2006. Google ScholarDigital Library
- I. Burnett, R. Van De Walle, K. Hill, J. Bormans, F. Pereira, "MPEG-21: Goals and Achievements", IEEE Multimedia, vol.10, no 4, pp.60--70, October-December 2003. Google ScholarDigital Library
- K. Diepold, F. Pereira, W. Chang, "MPEG-A: Multimedia Application Formats", IEEE Multimedia, vol. 12, no 4, pp. 34--41, October-December 2005. Google ScholarDigital Library
Index Terms
- MPEG multimedia standards: evolution and future developments
Recommendations
MPEG-A: Multimedia Application Formats
MPEG standards, instrumental in shaping the multimedia landscape since the early 1990s, are taking another step forward with MPEG-A, which specifies multimedia application formats. MAFs are essentially superformats that combine selected technology ...
Leveraging Parallel Computing in Modern Video Coding Standards
Video coding has always been a computationally intensive process. Although dramatic improvements in coding efficiency have been realized in recent years, the algorithms have become increasingly complex and there is a broader recognition that it is ...
Multimedia standards. history. state of art
FGIT'11: Proceedings of the Third international conference on Future Generation Information TechnologyThe aim of this presentation is to review some of the standards, connected with multimedia and their metadata. We start with MPEG family and continue with Open Standards for Interactive TV. Efficient video-streaming is presented. Some standards for ...
Comments