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MPEG Press Release
July 2002
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 N4910
July 2002 – Klagenfurt, AT
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Klagenfurt, Austria, 29 July 2002.
At its 61st meeting, held from 22-26 July 2002, MPEG reached another important milestone for the joint video codec development effort with the ITU-T known as the Joint Video Team (JVT), that is developing a new and important video standard for industry. WG11 also announces the completion of the second specification in the suite of standards known as MPEG-21.
The new video coding standard being developed jointly with the ITU-T VCEG organization was promoted to Final Committee Draft (FCD), the second ballot stage leading to an ISO/IEC International Standard. This new standard will provide a significant improvement in compression performance for general video coding applications. For reference, the standard will be identified both as ITU-T Rec. H.264 and ISO/IEC 14496-10 “Advanced Video Coding”.
Also, Digital Item Identification (ISO/IEC FDIS 21000-3) was elevated to Final Draft International Standard and will become an International Standard following a 2 month ballot by JTC 1. This is another important milestone as MPEG has now standardized another in the suite of MPEG-21 Standards. The MPEG-21 DII allows the unique identification of digital items in the MPEG-21 framework. The MDS Subgroup also completed the Committee Drafts of the MPEG-21 Rights Expression Language (REL) and MPEG-21 Rights Data Dictionary (RDD). The MPEG-21 REL and RDD work together to allow the machine-readable expression of rights associated with the use of multimedia. These parts will be finalized by MPEG over the next year. Work on Digital Item Adaptation continued with the production of both a second working draft (WD).
In other important news from Klagenfurt, MPEG reviewed 8 responses to its call for requirements on Persistent Association. A final requirements document will be issued at the 62nd meeting in Shanghai, China in October which in turn may lead to a call for proposals on Persistent Association at a later date.
MPEG also processed responses to the Call for Advanced Text and Graphics and has issued a technology report as well as a request for additional input on font formats.
MPEG reminds industry of outstanding calls due back shortly.
1. Call for Proposals for MPEG-4 Lossless Audio Coding. This call asks for technology that achieves lossless compression of audio materials and which is scalable across a very a broad range of music representations: from current-generation consumer compact disk (i.e. 44.kHz 16-bit) to very-high fidelity next-generation distribution mechanisms (i.e. 192 kHz 24-bit). In addition, the call requests technology that is hierarchical, comprising an MPEG-4 lossy coder and the new technology, so that the new technology has the potential to leverage on the MPEG-4 lossy coded representation in order to achieve greater lossless compression.
2. The Multimedia Description Schema subgroup request for a Registration Authority has resulted in an SC29 "Request for Candidates for the Registration Authority for ISO/IEC 21000-3". Responses should be forwarded directly to the SC29 Secretariat: Ms. Yukiko Ogura (ogura@itscj.ipsj.or.jp) or visit http://www.itscj.ipsj.or.jp/sc29/ for information and details of this call.
Details of how to obtain MPEG’s CfP’s and other public information is shown below.
Further information
Future MPEG meetings are as follows: 62nd meeting: 21-25 October 2002 (Shanghai, China), 63rd meeting 9-13 December 2002, and the 64th meeting from 10-14 March.
For further information about MPEG, please contact:
Dr. Leonardo Chiariglione, (Convenor of MPEG, Italy)
TILAB
Via G. Reiss Romoli, 274
10148 Torino, ITALY
Tel.: +39 11 228 6120; Fax: +39 11 228 6299
Email: mailto:leonardo.chiariglione@tilab.com
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Peter Schirling (HoD US MPEG Committee)
IBM Research – Digital Media Standards
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://mpeg.telecomitalialab.com
For the Outstanding Call for Proposals, see the Hot News section, http://mpeg.telecomitalialab.com/hot_news.htm
The MPEG homepage has links to other MPEG pages, which are maintained by some of the subgroups. It also contains links to public documents that are freely available for download to non-MPEG members.
Journalists that wish to receive MPEG Press Releases by email can contact Peter Schirling.